How Does Your State Make Electricity?

[elleng]

How the United States generated electricity from 2001 to 2017

Percentage of power produced from each energy source

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html?

[SHRED]

1. States make electricity?

I thought they handed over our tax dollars to mega corporations that turn around and screw us with the bill?
They euphemistically call this a "public/private partnership".

San Diego starts at 27 cents per KWh and rises sharply quickly.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Michigan...

QUICK FACTS

*The Antrim Gas Field in Michigan's Lower Peninsula is one of the nation's top 100 natural gas fields, and most of state's 101 billion cubic feet of gas produced in 2016 came from that field.

*In 2017, coal-fired power plants provided 37% of Michigan's net electricity generation, a slight increase from 2016, but down from 50% three years earlier.

*Michigan’s three nuclear power plants, with a total of four reactor units, provided 29% of the state's net electricity generation in 2017.

*Michigan has more underground natural gas storage capacity than any other state, equal to almost 1.1 trillion cubic feet, more than one-tenth of U.S. total gas storage capacity.

*Renewables, including wind, biomass, hydroelectric, and solar power, accounted for 8% of Michigan's net electricity generation in 2017

[BigmanPigman]

3. There are still so many states who mostly use coal...bad, bad, bad!