Power production in the continental United States totaled 89,586 gigawatt hours (GWh) in the week ended July 13, down 1.6pc from the same week a year ago, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) said in a report on Wednesday.
The week's output was 1pc higher than the 88,671 GWh produced in the preceding seven-day period, according to EEI data.
Year-on-year output fell in five of the nine US geographical regions tracked by the electric power trade group.
The Pacific Southwest region registered the biggest year-on-year percentage decline at 17.3pc, followed by the West Central region at 8.6pc.
For the past 52 weeks, US power production totaled 4,055,639 GWh, down 0.3pc from the prior 52-week period, the EEI added.
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