US electricity net generation
ObservedElectricity generated by all sectors in the United States, net of plant use, per month.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Energy Information AdministrationfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- million kilowatthours
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US electricity net generation, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Electricity net generation, total (all sectors, including sources not shown separately), from the EIA Monthly Energy Review table 7.2a, series ELETPUS through the EIA API v2 total-energy route. Monthly, million kilowatthours. Net generation excludes electricity used within the generating plant.
- Direction
- higher is better
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-electricity-net-generation
Energy
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA Open Data API v2
- Series ID
ELETPUSlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.eia.gov
- License and attribution
- License review requiredU.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Last source update
- not recorded(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:03 UTC
- Parser version
- eia-v2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Recent months are preliminary and revised when the annual survey is finalised.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 10,000,000 million kilowatthours.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet