Wind turbines provided just 1 percent of the electricity produced in the state in 2001 and nearly 60 percent last year.
How Kentucky made electricity from 2001 to 2023 Percentage of power produced from each energy sourceCoal still generates the majority of the electricity produced in Kentucky, a longtime coal mining state.
Since then, virtually all of the electricity produced in the state has come from renewable sources, including hydropower, biomass, wind and solar.
It has supplied more than 85 percent of the electricity produced in the state every year for more than two decades.
Last year, wind supplied more than a fifth of the electricity produced in the state.
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