How Does Your State Produce Its Electricity? The Variations are Wild and Weird

Inside Climate News · By Dan Gearino · last updated March 13, 2025 – 5:04 AM

Take a tour of the country in terms of how each state produces power.

By Dan Gearino

One of the challenges in understanding the U.S. energy transition is that the circumstances are different in every state. Some, such as Vermont, have progressed far down the road away from fossil fuels, while others, such as Kentucky and West Virginia, might as well be decades in the past.

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