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Title: Energy source shares in United States electricity generation, 1920-2021

Time span: 1920-2021
    
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Variable: 
Energy sources used to generate electricity in the United States

Source: 
1949-2021: U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Consumption of fuels used to generate electricity"

Source link: 
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/

Data accessed: 
2022-11-01

Description: 
The EIA publishes data reported in EIA-923 Power Plant Operations Report. This report collects information from regulated and unregulated electric power plants in the United States. Data collected include electric power generation, energy source consumption, end of reporting period fossil fuel stocks, as well as the quality and cost of fossil fuel receipts.

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Variable: 
Energy sources used to generate electricity in the United States

Source: 
1920-1948: U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970," Series S32-43, S95-107

Source link: 
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1975/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1970.html

Data accessed: 
2022-11-01

Description: 
The Bureau of Census series relies principally on monthly and annual reports from the United States Federal Power Commission (FPC) on the fuel consumption of electric power plants. In 1977 the FPC was replaced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

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