{"chart":{"slug":"nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state","title":"Which states get the most electricity from nuclear power?","takeaway":"In 2025 nuclear power made 56.4% of New Hampshire's electricity, 54.2% of South Carolina's and 50.5% of Illinois's, against 17.7% across the US. Many states, and D.C., have no nuclear plant and generate none. 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":"2026-11-04T13:22:29.345Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/nuclear-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/nuclear-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/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":"U.S. overall","zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"New Hampshire","value":56.4},{"label":"South Carolina","value":54.2},{"label":"Illinois","value":50.5},{"label":"New Jersey","value":45.9},{"label":"Maryland","value":39.3},{"label":"Tennessee","value":39.3},{"label":"Connecticut","value":38.4},{"label":"Georgia","value":34.9},{"label":"North Carolina","value":31.8},{"label":"Pennsylvania","value":30.4},{"label":"Alabama","value":30.0},{"label":"Arizona","value":26.8},{"label":"Virginia","value":26.6},{"label":"Arkansas","value":22.8},{"label":"Minnesota","value":21.7},{"label":"New York","value":21.6},{"label":"Michigan","value":21.5},{"label":"U.S. overall","value":17.7},{"label":"Nebraska","value":17.2},{"label":"Wisconsin","value":15.3},{"label":"Louisiana","value":14.9},{"label":"Kansas","value":14.7},{"label":"Mississippi","value":14.7},{"label":"Ohio","value":11.6},{"label":"Florida","value":11.4},{"label":"Missouri","value":9.9},{"label":"California","value":8.5},{"label":"Washington","value":7.5},{"label":"Texas","value":7.0},{"label":"Alaska","value":0.0},{"label":"Colorado","value":0.0},{"label":"Delaware","value":0.0},{"label":"District of Columbia","value":0.0},{"label":"Hawaii","value":0.0},{"label":"Idaho","value":0.0},{"label":"Indiana","value":0.0},{"label":"Iowa","value":0.0},{"label":"Kentucky","value":0.0},{"label":"Maine","value":0.0},{"label":"Massachusetts","value":0.0},{"label":"Montana","value":0.0},{"label":"Nevada","value":0.0},{"label":"New Mexico","value":0.0},{"label":"North Dakota","value":0.0},{"label":"Oklahoma","value":0.0},{"label":"Oregon","value":0.0},{"label":"Rhode Island","value":0.0},{"label":"South Dakota","value":0.0},{"label":"Utah","value":0.0},{"label":"Vermont","value":0.0},{"label":"West Virginia","value":0.0},{"label":"Wyoming","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/nuclear-share-of-electricity-by-state)"}