The charts show the statistics of electricity generated in the United States using renewable and non-renewable energy resources and compares the data of 2009 and 2019. One of the most noticeable difference is that, in 2019 the use of coal has been decreased as compared to 2009 and the major amount of electricity is generated using the Natural Gas and Renewable resources.
The amount of electricity generated using coal has been decreased to 966 billion kilowatt-hours in 2019 from 1756 billion kilowatt-hours in 2009. Also, the amount of electricity produced using the Natural Gas is increased to 1582 billion kilowatt-hours from 921 billion kilowatt-hours. While the amount of electricity generated by using Nuclear and Petroleum as the resources has been relatively stable over the period, the data for Renewables as resource has been increased by more than half the data present in 2009.
Within the Renewable energy sources, there is a drastic increase in the amount of electricity produced using Wind and Solar power. In 2009 only 94 billion kilowatt-hours of energy was produced using Wind which has increased to 300 billion kilowatt-hours, which when compared is almost more than thrice the electricity produced in 2009 using Wind. The amount of electricity produced using Geothermal, Plant/Animal Matter and hydroelectricity is almost the same since 2009 to 2019 but there is a tremendous increase in the amount of electricity produced using the Solar power which has increased from 1 billion kilowatt-hours in 2009 to 73 billion kilowatt-hours in 2019.