Kentucky has major coal, oil and gas deposits. The Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in the Ohio River Basin provide hydropower potential. Kentucky's per capita energy consumption is among the highest in the Nation, and the industrial sector leads State energy demand.
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- Kentucky ranks third in the Nation in coal production. It accounts for about one-tenth of U.S. coal production and approximately one-fourth of U.S. production east of the Mississippi River.
- Nearly one-third of all the coal mines in the Nation are found in Kentucky.
- Coal-fired plants typically generate more than nine-tenths of the electricity produced in Kentucky.
- The majority of Kentucky's natural gas demand is supplied by pipeline from the Gulf Coast.