Electricity sales

RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XC3-BMVT0FP162-MBJPPX

4,135 billionkilowatthours
forecast

United States · 2026

EIA projects electricity sales in the United States at 4,135 billion kilowatthours in 2026.

Original source

Electricity sales: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher
EIA
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Electricity consumption
Retrieved
15 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

We expect electricity sales in the United States to total 4,135 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2026, an increase of almost 2% over 2025.

Checked: the figure 4,135 billion kilowatthoursis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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APA

U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2026). Short-Term Energy Outlook. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPPX

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MLA
U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Short-Term Energy Outlook." 2026, https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPPX.
Chicago
U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Short-Term Energy Outlook." 2026. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPPX.
BibTeX
@misc{eia2026electricitymbjppx, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {Short-Term Energy Outlook}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPPX}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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Record: STO-01M2KJ7XC3-BMVT0FP162-MBJPPX T1 Official

Primary source

Publisher
U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
Short-Term Energy Outlook
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
Electricity consumption
Retrieved
15 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
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Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
15 September 2026
Last revision
15 September 2026
Permanent URL
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