United States Energy - 2023

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2020)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 1,143,266,000 kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 3,897,886,551,000 kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 14,134,679,000 kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 61,448,863,000 kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 198,085,480,000 kWh (2020 est.)

comparison rankings: installed generating capacity 2; consumption 2; exports 15; imports 1; transmission/distribution losses 3

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 59.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 19.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 3.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 8.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 1.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 93 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 1

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 95.83GW (2021)

Percent of total electricity production: 20% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 8.2% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 20

note: The US has the World's largest nuclear energy program with 26% of the World's net capacity of nuclear reactors

Coal

production: 495.13 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 441.968 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 63.276 million metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 4.808 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 228.662 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 17,924,200 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 20,542,900 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 2,048,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 7,768,500 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 47.107 billion barrels (2020 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

20.3 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

5.218 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

2.175 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 967,144,362,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

consumption: 857,542,658,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

exports: 188,401,779,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

imports: 79,512,470,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 13,178,780,000,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

5,144,361,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 1,077,520,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 2,382,833,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 1,684,008,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

304.414 million Btu/person (2019 est.)

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