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Over the past 75 years, the U.S. electricity system has shifted from one dominated by coal to one in which natural gas and renewables supply nearly two-thirds of generation.

This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, shows annual U.S. electricity generation by source from 1950 to 2025 using data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It tracks output in billions of kilowatt-hours and each source’s share of the electricity mix over time.

Natural Gas and Renewables Lead U.S. Electricity Generation

Coal supplied 46.4% of U.S. electricity in 1950 and remained the country’s largest power source for decades. By 2025, however, its share had fallen to 16.6%. Natural gas moved in the opposite direction, rising from 13.5% to 40.8% and overtaking coal in 2016.

The table below shows each energy source’s share of total U.S. electricity generation at 15-year intervals from 1950 to 2025.

Energy Source Share of U.S. Electricity Generation 1950 1965 1980 1995 2010 2025 Natural Gas 13.5% 21.0% 15.1% 14.8% 24.0% 40.8% Renewables 30.2% 18.6% 12.4% 11.4% 10.2% 24.0% Nuclear 0.0% 0.4% 11.0% 20.1% 19.6% 17.7% Coal 46.4% 54.0% 50.7% 51.0% 44.8% 16.6% Petroleum and Other 10.2% 6.1% 10.7% 2.8% 1.5% 0.8%

Renewables reached a 24.0% share in 2025 and have remained ahead of coal since 2022. Together, natural gas and renewables supplied 64.8% of U.S. electricity that year.

Coal peaked at 56.9% of the electricity mix in 1988. By 2025, no single source accounted for a majority of U.S. generation.

Coal Declined as U.S. Electricity Generation Surged

Coal generation peaked at 2,016 billion kWh in 2007. By 2025, it had fallen to 737 billion kWh, a decline of 63.4%.

Meanwhile, natural gas generation expanded rapidly with the growth of efficient combined-cycle power plants and abundant shale gas, rising from 45 billion kWh in 1950 to 1,807 billion kWh in 2025.

The table below shows U.S. electricity generation by source at 15-year intervals, measured in billions of kWh:

Energy Source Electricity Generation (Billion kWh) 1950 1965 1980 1995 2010 2025 Natural Gas 45 222 346 496 988 1,807 Renewables 101 197 285 382 422 1,064 Nuclear 0 4 251 673 807 785 Coal 155 571 1,162 1,709 1,847 737 Petroleum and Other 34 65 246 93 61 37 Total Electricity Generation 334 1,058 2,290 3,353 4,125 4,430

Over the same period, total U.S. electricity generation rose from 334 billion kWh to 4,430 billion kWh. Natural gas accounted for about 43% of the overall increase, illustrating how it absorbed much of the system’s long-term growth.

The national shift is also visible at the regional level. A recent Visual Capitalist map of what powers each U.S. state and Canadian province shows natural gas as the leading electricity source across much of the United States.

Renewables Set a New Generation Record in 2025

Renewable generation rose to a record 1,064 billion kWh in 2025, equal to 24.0% of total electricity production. That was 93 billion kWh more than in 2024 and nearly twice the 539 billion kWh generated in 2015.

The complete dataset for U.S. electricity generation by source from 1950 to 2025 is available below:

Year Natural Gas (Billion kWh) Renewables (Billion kWh) Nuclear (Billion kWh) Coal (Billion kWh) Petroleum and Other (Billion kWh) Total Electricity Generation (Billion kWh) 1950 45 101 0 155 34 334 1951 57 105 0 185 29 375 1952 68 110 0 195 30 404 1953 80 110 0 219 38 447 1954 94 112 0 239 32 476 1955 95 117 0 301 37 550 1956 104 125 0 339 36 604 1957 114 134 0 346 40 635 1958 120 144 0 344 40 648 1959 147 141 0 378 47 713 1960 158 150 1 403 48 759 1961 169 156 2 422 49 797 1962 184 172 2 450 49 858 1963 202 169 3 494 52 920 1964 220 181 3 526 57 987 1965 222 197 4 571 65 1058 1966 251 198 6 613 79 1148 1967 265 226 8 630 89 1218 1968 304 227 13 685 104 1333 1969 333 254 14 706 138 1445 1970 373 252 22 704 184 1535 1971 374 270 38 713 220 1616 1972 376 278 54 771 274 1753 1973 341 278 83 848 314 1864 1974 320 307 114 828 301 1870 1975 300 307 173 853 289 1921 1976 295 291 191 944 320 2041 1977 306 228 251 985 358 2127 1978 305 287 276 976 365 2209 1979 329 287 255 1075 304 2251 1980 346 285 251 1162 246 2290 1981 346 270 273 1203 206 2298 1982 305 318 283 1192 147 2244 1983 274 342 294 1259 144 2313 1984 297 333 328 1342 120 2419 1985 292 295 384 1402 100 2473 1986 249 306 414 1386 137 2490 1987 273 265 455 1464 118 2575 1988 253 238 527 1541 149 2707 1989 353 325 529 1584 176 2967 1990 373 354 577 1594 140 3038 1991 382 353 613 1591 136 3074 1992 404 323 619 1621 117 3084 1993 415 353 610 1690 129 3197 1994 460 333 640 1691 123 3248 1995 496 382 673 1709 93 3353 1996 455 420 675 1795 99 3444 1997 479 430 629 1845 110 3492 1998 531 396 674 1874 146 3620 1999 556 393 728 1881 136 3695 2000 601 351 754 1966 130 3802 2001 639 279 769 1904 146 3737 2002 691 335 780 1933 120 3858 2003 650 347 764 1974 149 3883 2004 710 343 789 1978 151 3971 2005 761 351 782 2013 149 4055 2006 816 379 787 1991 91 4065 2007 897 346 806 2016 91 4157 2008 883 375 806 1986 70 4119 2009 921 413 799 1756 61 3950 2010 988 422 807 1847 61 4125 2011 1014 507 790 1733 56 4100 2012 1226 490 769 1514 49 4048 2013 1125 517 789 1581 54 4066 2014 1127 532 797 1582 56 4094 2015 1335 539 797 1352 55 4079 2016 1379 603 806 1239 51 4078 2017 1298 680 805 1206 47 4035 2018 1472 701 807 1149 52 4181 2019 1589 723 809 965 44 4131 2020 1627 778 790 773 42 4010 2021 1579 810 780 898 43 4110 2022 1687 895 772 832 46 4231 2023 1806 889 775 675 38 4183 2024 1870 971 782 652 34 4309 2025 1807 1064 785 737 37 4430

Renewables first edged above coal in 2020, fell back below it in 2021, and moved ahead again in 2022. They remained the larger source through 2025. Renewables also surpassed nuclear in 2021 and have stayed ahead since, while nuclear generation held relatively steady at about 785 billion kWh in 2025.

As U.S. electricity demand records its strongest three-year growth stretch since before the global financial crisis, natural gas and renewables are supplying much of the increase, including demand linked to AI data centers.

If you enjoyed today’s post, check out this map, What Powers Each U.S. State and Canadian Province?, on Voronoi.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2026 - 18:50

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Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis

Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” requirement.

To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-term, affordable leases for residential, agricultural, and pastoral purposes—an applicant must prove that he or she has 50 percent Native Hawaiian ancestry. In any other context, this type of requirement would be instantly illegal. No ordinary government agency or housing authority can deny your application or evict you because of your ancestry. Yet, these controversial rules are very common for determining benefits for indigenous populations, and continue to give the state inordinate power to withhold opportunities and take property from citizens according to overtly discriminatory justifications.

The lead plaintiff in the first lawsuit is Eric Ryan, a lifelong Hawaiian resident whose application for a homestead lease was immediately denied because he was not, as the pre-qualification form required, “at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian.” The legal definition of a Native Hawaiian is a “descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778.” With this narrow construction, the state is empowered to reject thousands of applicants. Meanwhile, many others are left on hold. According to the complaint, the waiting list for new leases exceeds 30,000 applicants, and some have been waiting for more than 40 years.

The Department has sought to expand its efforts to meet the high demand. Last year, it purchased an 82-unit private housing complex in Kauai for a state-run rent-to-own program. But, yet again, the program was reserved for residents who were at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian. This meant that applicants like Ryan would be ineligible and, even worse, existing homeowners would be evicted because of their ancestry. In July, two residents initiated a second lawsuit against the Department. Linda Twitchell, who is not Native Hawaiian, will soon be forced to leave the apartment she has lived in for seven years. Another resident, David Kalahiki, who is 25 percent Native Hawaiian, will not be able to continue living in his home since it will go to someone on the waitlist who meets the strict ancestry cutoff. These evicted residents were forced back into a tumultuous housing market where renters struggle to find affordable homes, and a majority must spend more than 30 percent of their monthly income on rent.

The dispossession of residents through these discriminatory rules unnecessarily exacerbates the housing insecurity within the state. This situation stems from an antiquated and controversial policy: the Department is empowered by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, a federal law that mandates the blood quantum requirement. It was enacted during Hawaii’s territorial period between annexation and statehood. According to a 1920 House report, lawmakers were concerned about too much social assimilation and native population decline. However, some scholars and commentators have called the requirement a tool of dispossession that was designed to reduce individual autonomy under the guise of protection.

Still, state officials claim that the Act is beneficial rather than harmful. In a statement, Hawaii Governor Josh Green vowed to defend the statute rigorously, and Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez claimed that the program has “provided opportunities, stability, and hope to generations of Native Hawaiian beneficiaries.” But the plaintiffs contend that the ancestral requirement is constitutionally impermissible and violates the guarantee of equal protection under the law.

The Kauai evictions are particularly suspect because they involve the displacement of residents, while Governor Green paradoxically claims that the Act is designed to remedy dispossession. As the complaint alleges: “The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act does not expressly authorize [the Department] to purchase private real property and convert that property into Hawaiian home lands. Rather, the purpose of the Act was to specifically preserve the Hawaiian home lands—real property previously held by the Hawaiian monarchy—for homesteading purposes.” Even if the law has conceptual merit, it is uncertain whether it still accomplishes its intended goals or works against them.

Ultimately, the courts will need to clarify whether these ancestry-based requirements can persist and, separately, whether they justify the ousting of residents from their homes. But as it stands, Hawaii can tell residents that they are insufficiently Native Hawaiian and evict them based on its rigid, government-imposed standard.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2026 - 18:25

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