Where Kansas Gets Its Electricity
Net generation by source · 12-month average, July 2025 – June 2026.
Generation mix
| Source | Share | Generation |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 6.5% | 4,104 GWh |
| Coal | 28.1% | 17,781 GWh |
| Nuclear | 14.7% | 9,282 GWh |
| Wind | 49.3% | 31,210 GWh |
| Solar | 1.1% | 722 GWh |
| Hydro | 0.0% | 25 GWh |
| Other | 0.3% | 188 GWh |
63.3 TWh generated over the 12 months to June 2026. Shares are of net generation within Kansas, which is not the same as what the state consumes — power crosses state lines.
Counting rooftop solar
EIA reports small-scale solar — mostly rooftop panels on homes and businesses — separately, and leaves it out of the state generation total that the mix above is a share of. Kansas generated 219 GWh that way. Counting it on both sides of the ratio takes solar from 1.1% to 1.5%.
How the mix has shifted since 2001
| Source | 2001 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 4.4% | 6.5% | +2.1 pts |
| Coal | 71.0% | 30.7% | −40.3 pts |
| Nuclear | 23.1% | 14.7% | −8.4 pts |
| Wind | 0.1% | 47.0% | +46.9 pts |
| Solar | 0.0% | 0.8% | +0.8 pts |
| Hydro | 0.1% | 0.0% | — |
| Other | 1.4% | 0.3% | −1.1 pts |
Compared with the U.S. and nearby states
Kansas's generation mix in context
Wind dominates Kansas's electricity generation, supplying 48.8% of the total 63.3 TWh produced since June 2025. This far exceeds the national largest source, natural gas at 40.8%. Coal ranks second in the state at 28.5%, followed by nuclear at 14.7%, with gas contributing 6.5%. Solar accounts for 1.1% of generation on a utility-scale basis, or 1.4% when small-scale rooftop solar is included; hydro generates none.
Renewables made up 50.1% of Kansas's generation, ranking 12th among the 51 states and DC. Carbon-free sources, which include renewables plus nuclear, reached 64.7%. This renewable share exceeds the national figure of 24.9% by 25.2 percentage points. Among Kansas's four bordering states, all have lower renewable shares: Oklahoma at 48.3%, Colorado at 46.5%, Nebraska at 32.2%, and Missouri at 14.7%.
Since 2001, Kansas's generation mix has shifted dramatically. Wind surged from 0.1% in 2001 to 47.0% in 2025, gaining 46.9 percentage points. Coal collapsed from 71.0% to 30.7%, a decline of 40.3 percentage points. Nuclear fell from 23.1% to 14.7%. Solar emerged from nothing to 0.8% by 2025. The renewable share overall grew from 0.1% in 2001 to 47.9% in 2025, a rise of 47.8 percentage points.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through May 2026.
Frequently asked questions
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How this is measured
Figures are net generation reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration for all sectors — utilities, independent power producers, and industrial and commercial plants that generate their own power. Shares are of the 12 months to June 2026, rather than a single month, because generation is strongly seasonal: solar peaks in summer and hydro with the spring melt, so one month says more about the weather than about the grid.
“Other” is the reported total minus the six named sources, so the shares add to exactly 100%. It holds geothermal, biomass, petroleum, other gases, and pumped storage — the last of which consumes more electricity than it returns, and so can be negative. Geothermal and biomass are renewable, which is why the renewable share above is slightly larger than wind, solar and hydro added together.
This is generation, not consumption. Electricity crosses state lines freely, so a state can generate more than it uses or rely on imports for a large part of its supply; neither shows up here.