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The World's largest Hydroelectric power plant is built
The Hoover Dam is completed on the colorado river in Arizona in 1935, the construction began in 1931. -
Petroleum becomes most used fuel in US
Due to demand started by the automobile, 1950 became the first year that petroleum was the most used in the US. -
First nuclear power reactor build in Idaho
The reactor was built to be useful for electricity for the first time. It started off barely able to powert a simple string of four, 100-watt light bulbs. -
US Congress passes the Atomic Energy Act
The Congress passed the energy act in 1954 permitting the wide use of atomic energy for such peaceful purposes. -
Oil production peaks in the lower 48 states
The oil production in the lower 48 states reaches the highest peak they have had in 1970, peaking at 9.4 million barrels per day. -
The Formation of the Solar energy Research institute launches
The US department of Energy Launches the SERIin Colorado, which was the first facility dedicated to harnessing power from the sun. -
The World's first wind farm was built in New Hampshire
The US windpower installed the World's first wind farm, consisting of 20 wind turbines. -
US begins importing petroleum more than it produces
This was the first time in history that the Unites States imports more than it produces. -
Us invests $3.4 Billion to modernize energy grid
On this day President Obama annouced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history. -
First controlled Nuclear chain reaction
As the war was going on in the 1940's, Many physicists in Europe and America came together to understand that a uranium atom split by a neutron would cause a chain reaction. -
