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Electricity
The counter spreads reported 2025 U.S. electricity generation evenly through the day. It uses historical generation, excludes forecast columns, and does not represent a live grid meter. Generation is energy, not generating capacity.
Numbers tell a bigger story.
≈ 12.14B kWh / day historical pace
Resets at midnight UTC · refresh does not restart it
What makes this number move?
Historical basis: 2025
Historical pace × elapsed time in the selected window. Actual activity is uneven; this is not a live event or transaction feed.
Use historical U.S. generation in billion kWh, convert to kWh and divide by 365 actual days. Exclude columns marked projected or Forecast. Freeze two years after year end.
Electricity generated, not power capacity or electricity billed. Historical total spread evenly; forecast columns are excluded. EIA historical estimates may be revised.
Electricity generation over time
Published values in the current source vintage. The line joins observations; it does not show a historical WN forecast.
View accessible data table
| Period | Official value (kWh) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4,309,000,000,000 |
| 2025 | 4,430,000,000,000 |
EXPLORE THE SCALE
What does this pace mean over a minute or an hour?
Electricity generation · based on 2025. This converts the historical activity rate into a time interval you choose.
8,428,463 kWh
Calculation: stated rate × selected seconds. This is a scale illustration, not observed activity during that interval, a prediction or a change to the main counter. Actual activity varies; a negative rate represents a decrease.
What changed in the reported observations?
Electricity generation
2024: 4,309,000,000,000 → 2025: 4,430,000,000,000.
Difference: 121,000,000,000 (2.8% relative to the first displayed observation). This compares the first and last observations in this board’s displayed series, not necessarily consecutive periods or the same seasonal window. Check the source vintage and units before interpreting the change.
READING THIS BOARD
Does generation equal what households use?
Electricity generated, sold and consumed are different measures. Conversion and transmission losses and industrial demand affect the relationship.
Make a fair comparison
Check energy units and reporting periods. Capacity measures possible output; generation measures actual energy produced.
How this number works
Use historical U.S. generation in billion kWh, convert to kWh and divide by 365 actual days. Exclude columns marked projected or Forecast. Freeze two years after year end.
Electricity generated, not power capacity or electricity billed. Historical total spread evenly; forecast columns are excluded. EIA historical estimates may be revised.
Official source
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Electricity generation
- Period
- 2025
- Source release date
- Not supplied
- Version
- Official source import · 2025
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:31.668Z
- Valid through
- 2028-01-01T00:00:00Z