[bananaman22]

I think the report of SNL energy is incorrect.
The EIA’s numbers, citing the most recent data indicate that coal remains the biggest...
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf

[Olog-hai]

That won’t stop AP from printing propaganda.

[thackney]

You are looking at the previous report. The data out for April 2015 shows:

457,305 Thousand Megawatthours = coal

92,516 Thousand Megawatthours = natural gas

http://eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_1_01

Graphed at:
http://eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vvg&geo=g&sec=g&linechart=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.COW-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NG-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NUC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.HYC-US-99.M&columnchart=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.COW-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NG-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NUC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.HYC-US-99.M&map=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M&freq=M&start=200101&end=201504&ctype=linechart&ltype=pin&rtype=s&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=

[thackney]

Sorry, grabbed the wrong field make that:

88,835 coal

92,516 nat gas