It's a little easier to read if you translate different types of production to CO2 per kWh: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity?tab

It's a little easier to read if you translate different types of production to CO2 per kWh: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity?tab=line&country=AUT~FRA~EU-27~SWE~POL~ITA~NLD~OWID_WRL~CHN~EU+%28Ember%29~Europe+%28Ember%29~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric... But as you say, the US is more wasteful with energy, which can make it seem better if you look only at absolute levels of the clean energy, and really bad if you look at absolute levels of the dirtier energy.