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This is a list of the largest operational natural gas-fired power stations in the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. In 2019 there were around 1900 natural gas power stations in the
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, of which about 800 belonged to electric utilities. In 2019, these natural gas plants produced 38% of the United States
electricity production Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery (transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storag ...
, the highest percentage of any source above
coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...
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renewables Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...
. Natural gas power stations opened at a fast rate throughout the 2010s, quickly replacing aging, dirty, and economically unviable
coal-fired power station A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide, there are about 8,500 coal-fired power stations totaling over 2,000 gigawatts Nameplate capacity, capacity. They ...
s, but by the early 2020s new plants were mostly wind and solar with only
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continuing to open significant numbers of gas plants.


Natural gas-fired power stations


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List of Coal-fired power stations in the United States This is a list of the operational coal-fired power stations in the United States. Coal generated 23% of electricity in the United States in 2021, an amount similar to that from renewable energy or nuclear power, but about half of that gen ...
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List of Power stations in the United States The United States is home to a wide variety of power stations. The list below outlines power stations of significance by type, or by the U.S. state, state in which they reside. By type The following pages lists the power stations in the United ...
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List of largest power stations in the United States This article lists the largest electrical generating stations in the United States in terms of current installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear, natural gas, oil shale and peat, w ...
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Natural Gas in the United States Natural gas was the United States' largest source of energy production in 2016, representing 33 percent of all energy produced in the country. Natural gas has been the largest source of electrical generation in the United States since July 2015 ...
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Natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
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Energy in the United States Energy in the United States came mostly from fossil fuels in 2021 as 36% of the nation's energy originated from petroleum, 32% from natural gas, and 11% from coal. Nuclear power supplied 8% and renewable energy supplied 12%, which includes hyd ...
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List of largest power stations This article lists the largest power stations in the world, the ten overall and the five of each type, in terms of current installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural g ...
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List of countries by natural gas production This is a list of countries by natural gas production based on statistics from The World Factbook, and OECD members natural gas production by International Energy Agency (down) Countries by natural gas production The data in the following ...
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List of solar power stations in the United States This is a list of the largest operational solar power stations in the United States. In 2018, there were more than 2,500 utility scale solar power stations in the United States. In 2019, solar accounted for 1.8% of the United States' electricity p ...


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United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
Gas Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma). A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or ...
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Gas Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma). A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or ...