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Biggest Source of Electricity In Each U.S. State and Canadian Province (2025)

https://lemmy.world/post/43433077

Feb 22 at 2:08amWeb
Show threadDahGangalangFeb 22

For TN and IL, are those wind?

I am color blind…but most of the colors just look like grey to me and its making it really hard to tell wind from solar from nuclear.

Show threadRicoBertoFeb 22
They are nuclear.
Show threadDahGangalangFeb 22
Thanks for the assist. Wish they were labeled like basically every other state/province.
Show threadThatGuy46475Feb 22
It’s so windy in Wyoming how is that not their biggest source
Show threadMintyFreshFeb 22
Wyoming may be windy above, but it’s got hella coal and hella Republicans
Show threadreddig33Feb 22

Same problem with Texas. Large empty swaths of sunny West Texas are perfect for solar and wind, which generate more and more of the grid’s needs. But when the natural gas lines froze up one winter, and renewables kept things going, the Republican administration blamed solar and wind for the loss of electricity, not gas. Just making stuff up to support their strange love of fossil fuels.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

Show threadastropenguin5Feb 22

|strange love of fossil fuels

That’s just straight lobbying money lol

Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 22
too much wind can damage the generators. but like, they got hella wind farms too.
Show threadSendMePhotosFeb 22
Canada is hurting the waters by slowing down the currents with their hydro things! Boooooo (totally just being a troll)
Show threadA_norny_mousseFeb 22
The USA just burning things.
Show threadMrMobius Feb 22
Then again there’s a lot more people in the US than in Canada, so the energy demand is higher in the former. Denmark is also often praised for covering more than half of its elecricity needs with renewables, but they have a population of only 6 million.
Show threadStamau123Feb 22
Petroleum for Hawaii? I know they don’t have a lot of land but come on, it’s so sunny there
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 22
yeah, the last i checked was the odd year wind was up in texas. maybe it was just a chart showing renewables idk
Show threadstupidcaseyFeb 22
If your renewables are all hydro it’s entirely Luck based and just means you stuck to the rivers and streams your used to and don’t go chasing waterfalls.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamFeb 22
maybe they did go chasing waterfalls and dammed them up
Show threadwiesonFeb 22
I’d be interested if it’s offshore or onshore wind for Prince Edward island.