Renewable vitality sources generated practically one-third of complete U.S. electrical era in April, with photo voltaic offering over 10% of complete nationwide output, in keeping with a evaluate of U.S. Vitality Data Administration (EIA) data by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign.
EIA’s newest month-to-month “Electrical Energy Month-to-month” report (with knowledge by way of April 30, 2025), confirms that photo voltaic continues to be the quickest rising new supply of U.S. electrical energy.
In April alone, electrical era by utility-scale photo voltaic (initiatives better than 1 MW) elevated by 39.3% whereas “estimated” small-scale (rooftop initiatives) photo voltaic PV elevated by 11.8%. Mixed, they grew by 31.3% and supplied 10.7% of the nation’s electrical output in the course of the month.
Photo voltaic-generated electrical energy surpassed the output of the nation’s hydropower vegetation (6.0%). In truth, photo voltaic is now producing extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass and geothermal mixed. Wind and photo voltaic are actually producing one-fifth of complete U.S. electrical era — out-producing coal and nuclear energy.
Through the first 4 months of 2025, electrical era by wind plus utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic supplied 20.3% of the U.S. complete, up from 18.5% in the course of the first 4 months of 2024. In simply the month of April, photo voltaic and wind accounted for nearly one-fourth (24.6%) of complete U.S. electrical output.
Through the first 4 months of this 12 months, wind and photo voltaic supplied 20.2% extra electrical energy than coal, and 13.8% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy vegetation.
Electrical era by the mixture of all renewables in simply the month of April reached a brand new file and supplied virtually a 3rd (32.8%) of complete U.S. electrical era. Renewables are actually approaching the share supplied by pure fuel (35.1%) whose electrical output dropped by 4.4% in the course of the month.
In April 2020, the combination of renewables supplied 24.4% of complete electrical era whereas pure fuel accounted for 38.8%. A decade in the past, renewables supplied 16.7% of complete era whereas pure fuel supplied 31.5%; a lot of the steadiness was accounted for by coal (30.3%) and nuclear energy (20.4%).
“Photo voltaic is the now the fastest-growing main supply of electrical energy and is producing greater than hydropower, biomass, and geothermal mixed whereas wind plus photo voltaic present extra electrical energy than both coal or nuclear energy and the combination of all renewables is almost matching the output of pure fuel,” mentioned Ken Bossong, govt director of the SUN DAY Marketing campaign. “But, the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress are in search of to tug the rug out from beneath renewables in favor of dirtier and costlier fossil gasoline and nuclear applied sciences. What are they pondering?”
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