{"id":64728,"date":"2023-01-14T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64728"},"modified":"2023-01-14T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:35:03","slug":"these-are-north-americas-biggest-sources-of-electricity-by-state-and-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64728","title":{"rendered":"These Are North America’s Biggest Sources Of Electricity By State And Province"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These Are North America’s Biggest Sources Of Electricity By State And Province<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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On a national scale, the United States and Canada rely on a very different makeup of sources to generate their electricity.<\/p>\n

The U.S. primarily uses natural gas, coal, and nuclear power, while Canada relies on both hydro and nuclear. That said, when zooming in on the province or state level, individual primary electricity sources can differ greatly.<\/p>\n

In the infographic below,\u00a0Visual Capitalist’s Selin O\u011fuz<\/a>\u00a0takes a look at the electricity generation in the states and provinces of these two countries using data from the\u00a0Nuclear Energy Institute<\/a>\u00a0(2021) and the\u00a0Canada Energy Regulator<\/a>\u00a0(2019).<\/p>\n

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Natural Gas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natural gas<\/a>\u00a0is widely used for electricity generation in the United States. Known as a \u201ccleaner\u201d fossil fuel, its abundance, coupled with an established national distribution network and relatively low cost, makes it the leading electricity source in the country.<\/p>\n

In 2021, 38% of the\u00a04120 terawatt-hours (TWh)<\/a>\u00a0of electricity generated in the U.S. came from natural gas. Not surprisingly, more than 40% of American states have natural gas as their biggest electricity source.<\/p>\n

Here are some states that have the largest shares of natural gas-sourced electricity.<\/p>\n

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In Canada, natural gas is only the third-biggest electricity source (behind hydro and nuclear), accounting for\u00a011% of the 632 TWh<\/a>\u00a0of electricity produced in 2019. Alberta is the only province with natural gas as its main source of electricity.<\/p>\n

Nuclear<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nuclear power<\/a>\u00a0is a carbon-free energy source that makes up a considerable share of the energy generated in both the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n

19% of America\u2019s and 15% of Canada\u2019s electricity comes from nuclear power. While the percentages are close to one another, it\u2019s good to note that the United States generates 6 to 7 times more electricity than Canada each year, yielding a lot more nuclear power than Canada in terms of gigawatt hours (GWh) per year.<\/p>\n

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These Are North America’s Biggest Sources Of Electricity By State And Province On a national scale, the United States and Canada rely on a very different makeup of sources to generate their electricity. The U.S. primarily uses natural gas, coal, and nuclear power, while Canada relies on both hydro and nuclear. That said, when zooming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31139,328,7723,1164,6735,15442,4318],"class_list":["post-64728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-energy-source","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-hydro","tag-north-america","tag-nuclear","tag-renewables","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64729,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions\/64729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}