State electricity profiles

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

CA is an interesting item there. They were so far ahead in 1999, yet have merely doubled since then, while most states grew by far larger margins.

California has NIMBYism keeping it from building the transmission lines need to take more advantage of wind power.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No surprises really except for Hawaii and D.C. mainly using petroleum for electricity. Thought they'd be gassing it up.

LNG carriers are a relatively recent phenomenon. with the first small carrier setting sale only in 1959.  Hawaii never built the infrastructure for the domestic use of natural gas and thus never needed to build what would be needed to import gas for electricity generation.  Thus Hawaii has a chicken and egg problem when it comes to natural gas.  HEI (the primary electric utility) would need to not only build new generating plants, but also an LNG terminal.  Indeed, three LNG terminals if they were to build gas generators on Hawai'i and Maui as well as Oahu. (Kaui'i is served by a co-op.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Keep in mind that Hawaii has not one but four separate electricity grids: Oahu, Hawai'i, Maui, and Kaui'i.  A typically sized gas generator plant (~100MW) would be overkill for any of them except Oahu.  The nearest LNG source is Alaska, not the West Coast.  (Alaska's LNG heads mainly to Japan.)  The West Coast has no facilities to export or import LNG, tho there are some proposals for terminals to be built in Oregon. (Originally import terminals, but with the success of shale gas, they've been reworked as export terminals, but so far they haven't been approved.)