The bar chart displays the magnitude of electricity produced using five renewable and four non renewable sources of energy in the United States over a decade, from 2009 to 2019.
Overall, the use of non-replenishable energy sources like petroleum and coal dropped, while the generation of energy using natural gas and nuclear energy rose. Furthermore, there was also a significant rise in the production of electricity through non-depletable source of energy.
The total power produced using petroleum slightly declined from 57 billion kilowatt-hours in 2009 to 40 billion kilowatt-hours in 2019. Meanwhile, the creation of energy using natural gas almost doubled from 921 billion kilowatt-hours to 1582 billion kilowatt-hours. The production of electricity using nuclear energy during this period slightly climbed from 799 billion kilowatt-hours in 2009 to 809 billion kilowatt-hours in 2019. During this time production of coal plummeted, dropping from 1765 billion kilowatt-hours to a mere 966 kilowatt-hours.
In the meantime, the generation of electrical power using non-depletable resources rocketed, from 437 billion kilowatt-hours to 720 billion kilowatt-hours, almost increasing by two folds. The main contributors to this rise can be accounted for the production of of power through solar energy which grew exponentially from 1 billion kilowatt-hours in 2009 to a staggering 73 billion kilowatt-hours in 2019.The other contributor for this increase in creation of power using renewable energy sources is wind, which helped in creating 94 billion kilowatt-hours of current in 2009, and almost tripling in value of 300 billion kilowatt-hours in the past decade. Simultaneously, the production of power through geothermal sources increased by a billion kilowatt-hours from 15 in 2009 to 16 in 2019, while plant or animal matter grew slightly by 4 billion kilowatt-hours from 54 to 58 in the same decade. Additionally, the energy generation using water remained constant at 273 billion kilowatt hours throughout this period.