The charts below present information about electricity generated using renewable and non-renewable energy in the United States in 2009 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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as renewable and non-renewable in the United States of America over a period of 10 years. The generation of

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was tremendous and

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, measured in billion kilowatt-hours. It can be observed that non-renewable

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sources are significantly more popular than their renewable counterpart throughout.

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, a certain decrease in generation is noted in the non-renewable

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sources over the years, which is not the case for the renewable ones. In 2019, natural gas was greatly preferred with 1582 billion kilowatt-hours of production. Amongst the exhaustive options, coal was utilised the most generating a little over 1755 units of power in 2009.

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, from 2009 to 2019, coal suffered a major plunge, nearly halving its production

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numerous replenishable origins have maintained stable usage during the course, solar and wind

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have seen appreciable spikes. The former has produced more than thrice the power in 2019 than it did ten years ago.

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, the latter's generated has seen an additional 72 billion kilowatt-hours of generation.