For decades, Kentucky was the third-largest producer of coal in the United States. In 2016, Kentucky dropped to the fifth-largest, as coal-fired electricity generating plants that had been customers of Kentucky mines were retired. Eighty-three percent of Kentucky’s net electricity generation in 2016 was coal-fired, but a record 10 percent was natural gas-fired, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Kentucky has two oil refineries — Continental Refining (Somerset) and Marathon Petroleum (Catlettsburg) — with a combined processing capacity in 2016 of about 278,500 barrels per calendar day.
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