Energy Information Administration

Utilities across the country file annual reports on how much electricity they sold and how much money they made from it. This dataset collects that information by customer type (homes, businesses, factories) and shows revenue, the amount of electricity sold, and how many customers each utility serves. It covers about 3,000 utilities nationwide going back to 2012. In places where you can pick your energy company, the same customer's purchase might show up twice in the data: once as the retailer's sale and once as the local utility's delivery charge. The money doesn't get counted twice, but the volume and customer numbers do overlap between those rows.

Every power plant in the US that matters (1 megawatt or bigger) gets tracked here: what fuel it burns, how much power it can produce, when it was built, and when (if ever) it's scheduled to shut down. You can use this to see how America's electricity fleet changed over time, track which states built coal plants versus solar farms, or spot where generation capacity is aging out. It's the backbone data for understanding the energy transition.

How much electricity each state generates from coal, natural gas, nuclear, renewables, and other fuels. This data tracks the actual power produced month by month going back more than 20 years. If you want to know whether a state is switching to solar and wind, whether natural gas is replacing coal, or how Texas compares to California on nuclear power, this is where those numbers come from.

See what people actually paid for electricity each month in every state, broken down by whether they were running a home, business, or factory. The data goes back over 20 years, so you can track whether your state's electricity got more or less expensive, and how much people used. It also shows how many customers each utility company serves in each sector.

The U.S. has thousands of power plants that generate electricity. This dataset is a monthly headcount of the generators in those plants. It tells you what kind of fuel each one burns (coal, natural gas, solar, wind, nuclear), how much power it can produce, where it's located, and when it started operating or is expected to shut down. Think of it like a roster of the country's power infrastructure that gets updated every month.

How much electricity does each country generate, and where does it come from? This dataset shows the breakdown for nearly every nation going back decades. You can see how much power comes from coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear plants, wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric dams, and other sources. It also tracks whether countries are burning more or less fossil fuel year to year, and how much electricity each person uses. It's the kind of data that shows you which countries are switching to renewables fastest and which are still heavily dependent on coal.