{"chart":{"slug":"natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state","title":"Which states get the most electricity from natural gas?","takeaway":"In 2025 natural gas made 88.3% of Rhode Island's electricity, followed by Delaware (86.1%) and Massachusetts (78.8%). Across the US it made 40.9%, and the smallest shares were in Hawaii (0%) and Vermont (0.1%). Each bar is gas's share of the electricity generated in that state; 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":"2026-11-04T17:25:57.437Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/natural-gas-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/natural-gas-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/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":"U.S. overall","zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"Rhode Island","value":88.3},{"label":"Delaware","value":86.1},{"label":"Massachusetts","value":78.8},{"label":"Mississippi","value":73.6},{"label":"Florida","value":73.0},{"label":"Louisiana","value":72.2},{"label":"Pennsylvania","value":58.2},{"label":"Virginia","value":57.9},{"label":"Connecticut","value":56.5},{"label":"District of Columbia","value":56.5},{"label":"Ohio","value":54.2},{"label":"Nevada","value":50.6},{"label":"Alaska","value":50.0},{"label":"New Jersey","value":49.3},{"label":"Texas","value":48.3},{"label":"New York","value":48.2},{"label":"Alabama","value":45.9},{"label":"Arizona","value":45.2},{"label":"Oklahoma","value":44.2},{"label":"Maryland","value":42.6},{"label":"Michigan","value":42.2},{"label":"U.S. overall","value":40.9},{"label":"North Carolina","value":40.6},{"label":"Maine","value":39.1},{"label":"Georgia","value":38.6},{"label":"California","value":36.2},{"label":"Wisconsin","value":35.7},{"label":"Oregon","value":35.6},{"label":"Indiana","value":35.5},{"label":"Arkansas","value":33.9},{"label":"Colorado","value":32.0},{"label":"Idaho","value":31.4},{"label":"Utah","value":30.2},{"label":"New Hampshire","value":27.8},{"label":"New Mexico","value":26.6},{"label":"Kentucky","value":25.7},{"label":"Tennessee","value":23.7},{"label":"South Carolina","value":21.8},{"label":"Minnesota","value":19.3},{"label":"Illinois","value":16.0},{"label":"Washington","value":15.7},{"label":"Missouri","value":12.4},{"label":"Iowa","value":12.2},{"label":"South Dakota","value":11.2},{"label":"Wyoming","value":10.2},{"label":"North Dakota","value":6.5},{"label":"West Virginia","value":6.2},{"label":"Kansas","value":5.7},{"label":"Montana","value":4.9},{"label":"Nebraska","value":3.9},{"label":"Vermont","value":0.1},{"label":"Hawaii","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/natural-gas-share-of-electricity-by-state)"}