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U.S. Natural Gas Power Monthly

Strong Growth Continues

  • EnerWrap wrangles daily and monthly EIA power data to provide insights into power market generation and capacity

  • Natural gas power generation in the U.S. has increased on a year-over-year basis 28 of the last 29 months

  • Cooler weather resulted in month-over-month declines

  • Data center demand is likely to result in elevated gas usage

  • U.S. L-48 natural gas generation in September was 158 TWHrs, down 16.5% versus last month and up 3.5% versus last year

  • Last 12-month U.S. natural gas generation was 2,056 TWHrs

  • Through July LTM natural gas generation was up 5.4%

  • YTD gas generation is up 4.2% versus last year

  • Total natural gas capacity is currently 569,992 megawatts

  • Capacity factors for selected plants are shown

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