Hydropower accounts for the most electricity coming from renewables in US with 6,8% of US total electricity use.
US is the world's largest consumer and producer of electricity, followed by China and Japan. In the January 2010, US had total electricity generation of 3992 billion KWh while China had 3715 billion KWh.
In the first half of 2010 the electricity coming from wind power increased by 21.4%, and electricity from solar power by 16.4% in US.
Coal currently generates around 49% of US total electricity. This is because coal still remains the cheapest fuel when it comes to operating costs. In the last 40 years the use of coal to generate electricity in the U.S. has nearly tripled because of the rapidly growing electricity demand.
Nuclear power plants currently generate around 20% of US electricity. The average US nuclear power plant generates around 12.4 billion kWh.
It is expected that solar power, with the current growth, could account by more than 4% of US electricity by 2020.
According to the data from 2008 the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 11,040 kWh, an average of 920 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month. Tennessee had the highest annual consumption at 15,624 kWh and Maine the lowest at 6,252 kWh.
More than 17% of generated electricity in US is used for cooling and ventilation.
Around 13,5% of total U.S. electricity consumption goes to lightning.
Texas is the nation's largest electricity consumer followed by California, Florida, Ohio and New York. In 2008 Texas consumed 347,050 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Nation's lowest electricity consumer is the state of Vermont, followed by Alaska and Rhode Island.
Computers account for around 3% of US total electricity consumption.
Hawaii is the US state with the lowest estimated average residential electricity consumption per person with 2,382 kilowatt-hours in 2008.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that US electricity demand will grow by 41% by 2030.
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