Kansas has substantial fossil fuel reserves including the fourth largest natural gas field in the United States. Kansass flat plains offer some of the highest wind power potential in the country, and its cornfields offer a major feedstock for ethanol production. The industrial sector leads Kansass energy consumption.
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- Kansas ranks among the top 10 States in crude oil production.
- The Anadarko Shelf contains the Hugoton Gas Area, one of the top producing gas fields in the United States.
- The Mid-Continent Center, located in Wichita, is a key natural gas supply hub that merges production from several States in the region before piping it east toward major consumption markets.
- Natural gas production from coalbed methane is rapidly expanding in the Cherokee Platform, where reserves have become economically recoverable.
- Renewable energy generation, almost all of which comes from wind power, contributes minimally to Kansass electricity supply.