U.S. power producer CO2 emission rate

The privately/investor owned power producer PPL had a carbon dioxide emission rate of 1,967 pounds per megawatt hour of electricity generated in 2019. This was the largest CO2 emission rate of any privately/investor owned power producer in the U.S. that year. Roughly 80 percent of PPL's power production comes from the burning of coal, which is the most polluting of fossil fuels.

The electric power sector is currently the second-largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S., behind the transportation sector.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rate of leading privately/investor owned power producers in the United States in 2019 (in pounds per megawatt hour)*

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Release date

July 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

*"Privately/investor owned” power producers include investor owned, privately held, and foreign owned corporations. This chart does not show public power producers (federal power authorities, state power authorities, municipalities, power districts) or cooperatives. Based on emissions information of power producers, not distribution utilities that deliver electricity to customers

Emission rate (lbs/MWh):
Average pounds of pollutant (e.g., CO2, SO2, NOx) emitted for each megawatt-hour of electricity generation in a region

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