America''s Electricity Generation Capacity, 2025 Update
This report includes generation capacity data from 50 U.S. states as well as American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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This report includes generation capacity data from 50 U.S. states as well as American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 2024, net solar power generation in the United States reached its highest point yet at 218.5 terawatt hours of solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) power.
System data is analyzed for key performance indicators including availability, performance ratio, and energy ratio by comparing the measured production data to modeled production data.
Is solar power the future of electricity generation?Solar continues to dominate new electricity generation capacity added to the grid in the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration''s
This report summarizes the latest statistics on solar power capacity by state and highlights the top U.S. states in solar power generation.
Land-Use Requirements for Solar Power Plants in the United States. NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Operated by the
Solar power includes solar farms as well as local distributed generation, mostly on rooftops and increasingly from community solar arrays. In 2024, utility-scale solar power generated 219.8 terawatt
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Solar power includes solar farms as well as local distributed generation, mostly on rooftops and increasingly from community solar arrays. In 2024, utility-scale solar power generated 219.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) in the United States. Total solar generation that year, including estimated small-scale photovoltaic generation, was 303.8 TWh. As of the end of 2024, the United States had 239 gigawatts (GW) of installed photovol
In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect that U.S. renewable capacity additions—especially solar—will continue to drive the growth of U.S. power generation over the next
Many of the world''s biggest and most productive photovoltaic stations and farms are located in the United States. The nation boasts dozens of solar PV plants whose capacity exceeds 200 megawatts.
Solar photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants provided about 4% of total U.S. utility-scale electricity and accounted for 18% of utility-scale electricity generation from renewable sources
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