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In 2021, hydroelectric power produced 31.5% of the total renewable electricity, and 6.3% of the total U.S. electricity. [2] According to the International Hydropower Association, the United States is the 3rd largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world in 2021 after Brazil and China. [3] Total installed capacity for 2020 was 102.8 GW.
This is a list of U.S. states by total electricity generation, percent of generation that is renewable, total renewable generation, percent of total domestic renewable generation, [1] and carbon intensity in 2022.
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
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Due to high electricity demand, and lack of local power plants, California imports more electricity than any other state, [19] (32% of its consumption in 2018 [1]) primarily wind and hydroelectric power from states in the Pacific Northwest (via Path 15 and Path 66) and nuclear, coal, and natural gas-fired production from the desert Southwest ...
Its minimum wholesale rate is 3.49 cents per kilowatt-hour; the BPA generated $4.72 billion in operating revenue in 2022. [ 1 ] BPA now markets the electricity from thirty-one federal hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River and its tributaries, as well as from the Columbia Generating Station , a nuclear plant located on the Hanford Site in ...
The proposed $2 billion Twin States Clean Energy Link would bring hydropower from Quebec through Vermont and New Hampshire. ... 150 feet in places along a 192-mile route through more than 30 ...
Hydro excludes pumped storage (not an energy source, used by all sources, other than hydro). Total includes net imports. 2021 and 2022 data is from Electric Power Annual 2022; The following tables summarize the electrical energy generated by fuel source for the United States. Electric Power Annual [11] for 2022 data.