Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is rich in fossil fuels. Renewable energy resources are also abundant. The industrial sector is Pennsylvania's leading energy-consuming sector, due in part to energy-intensive industries.

• The first commercial U.S. nuclear power plant came online in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania; today, Pennsylvania ranks second in the Nation in nuclear power generating capacity


• Pennsylvania is a major coal-producing State and sells about one-half of its coal output to other States throughout the East Coast and Midwest.


• Pennsylvania is the leading petroleum-refining State in the Northeast.


• The Drake Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania was the world's first commercial oil well, and western Pennsylvania was the site of the world's first oil boom.