Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$2.2 billion$2.2B
vs 2010
1.0× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
0%
Busiest portTop port
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY

Most imported electricity comes from Canada: over 99% of $2.2 billion.

Electric power crossing the border by transmission line.

Where US electricity comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $2.2B the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$2.17Bover 99%

Total US electricity imports by year · $2.1B in 2010 to $2.2B in 2025Replay the ranking year by year, 2010 to 2025

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Then and now: 2015 vs 2025Then and now

Each country's share of US electricity imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US electricity imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Canadaover 99% → over 99%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's produced

Bigger circle = more value, 2025. Numbers match the list.

Canada sends almost all of it.

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  1. 01Canada

Where it enters

US port where it entered, 2025. Letters match the list.

Nearly all of it comes in by land or other routes. Buffalo-Niagara Falls takes 30%. Spokane and Champlain-Rouses Point follow at 22% and 19%.

ABCDEF
ABCDEF
  1. ABuffalo-Niagara Falls, NY $0.66B
  2. BSpokane, WA $0.48B
  3. CChamplain-Rouses Point, NY $0.41B
  4. DPembina, ND $0.32B
  5. ECalais, ME $0.19B
  6. FHoulton, ME $55.6M
More detail: states listed on entry paperworkMore detail: states on paperwork

This is the destination written on customs forms, often a warehouse or distributor near the port. It is not where the electricity is used.

Seven states are listed for over $100M each.

  1. 01New York$0.54B
  2. 02Vermont$0.34B
  3. 03Minnesota$0.33B
  4. 04Maine$0.25B
  5. 05Washington$0.22B
$100M+$40–100M$10–40M$1–10MUnder $1M

Counted under HS 2716. How we count.