{"chart":{"slug":"coal-share-of-electricity-by-state","title":"Which states get the most electricity from coal?","takeaway":"In 2025 coal made 86.7% of West Virginia's electricity, followed by Kentucky (65.4%) and Missouri (64.3%). Across the US it made 16.6%, and some states made none. Each bar is coal's share of the electricity generated in that state, which may differ from what its homes use; the 2025 figures are preliminary.","topic":"Energy","chart_type":"bar","ranking":true,"x_label":"State","y_label":"Share of the state's electricity generation (%)","unit":"percent","points_count":52,"source":{"name":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (net generation by state)","url":"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work)","url":"https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-11-04T17:21:16.583Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state/embed","credit":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (net generation by state), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state)","credit_html":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (net generation by state), via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":"U.S. overall","zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"West Virginia","value":86.7},{"label":"Kentucky","value":65.4},{"label":"Missouri","value":64.3},{"label":"Wyoming","value":57.8},{"label":"North Dakota","value":52.7},{"label":"Utah","value":47.2},{"label":"Indiana","value":46.0},{"label":"Nebraska","value":45.5},{"label":"Montana","value":36.0},{"label":"Wisconsin","value":35.2},{"label":"Kansas","value":31.2},{"label":"Arkansas","value":29.7},{"label":"Iowa","value":25.6},{"label":"Colorado","value":24.7},{"label":"Ohio","value":24.6},{"label":"Minnesota","value":24.1},{"label":"Tennessee","value":23.9},{"label":"Michigan","value":22.8},{"label":"New Mexico","value":20.7},{"label":"South Carolina","value":17.5},{"label":"U.S. overall","value":16.6},{"label":"Illinois","value":16.1},{"label":"Alabama","value":15.1},{"label":"Georgia","value":13.7},{"label":"North Carolina","value":13.3},{"label":"Texas","value":11.5},{"label":"Alaska","value":10.5},{"label":"Oklahoma","value":10.5},{"label":"South Dakota","value":9.3},{"label":"Arizona","value":7.9},{"label":"Pennsylvania","value":7.0},{"label":"Maryland","value":6.1},{"label":"Nevada","value":5.7},{"label":"Louisiana","value":5.4},{"label":"Mississippi","value":5.3},{"label":"Delaware","value":4.6},{"label":"Florida","value":3.8},{"label":"Virginia","value":3.4},{"label":"Washington","value":3.1},{"label":"New Hampshire","value":1.3},{"label":"Maine","value":0.2},{"label":"California","value":0.1},{"label":"Connecticut","value":0.0},{"label":"District of Columbia","value":0.0},{"label":"Hawaii","value":0.0},{"label":"Idaho","value":0.0},{"label":"Massachusetts","value":0.0},{"label":"New Jersey","value":0.0},{"label":"New York","value":0.0},{"label":"Oregon","value":0.0},{"label":"Rhode Island","value":0.0},{"label":"Vermont","value":0.0}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (net generation by state), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/coal-share-of-electricity-by-state)"}