The U.S. Vitality Info Administration (EIA) has launched information for the primary six months of 2025 that reveals photo voltaic offered nearly 9% of complete U.S. electrical era, persevering with its streak because the quickest rising supply of electrical energy in the US.
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EIA’s newest month-to-month “Electric Power Monthly” report confirmed that utility-scale photo voltaic in June alone ballooned by a nearly one-third (30.1%) in comparison with June 2024 whereas estimated residential/small-scale photo voltaic PV elevated by 10.5%. Mixed, all types of photo voltaic PV grew by 25.0% and offered 10.2% of the nation’s electrical output throughout June.
Furthermore, utility-scale photo voltaic expanded by 37.6% whereas that from residential techniques rose by 10.7% throughout the first six months of 2025 in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. The mixture of utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic elevated by 29.7% and was 8.7% of complete U.S. electrical era for January-June – up from 6.9% a 12 months earlier.
As a consequence, solar-generated electrical energy simply surpassed — by nearly 45% — the output of the nation’s hydropower crops (6.0%). Photo voltaic is now producing extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass, and geothermal mixed.
Wind energy additionally continues as a renewable power chief in 2025, with wind generators producing 11.6% of U.S. electrical energy within the first six months of 2025. Their output was 2.4% larger than the 12 months earlier than and nearly double that produced by the nation’s hydropower crops.
In the course of the first six months of 2025, electrical era by wind and photo voltaic offered 20.3% of the U.S. complete, up from 18.6% throughout the first six months of 2024. Additional, the mixture of wind and photo voltaic offered 25% extra electrical energy than did coal throughout the first six months of this 12 months, and 15.6% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy crops.
The combo of all renewables produced 9.2% extra electrical energy in January-June than they did a 12 months in the past and offered (27.7%) of complete U.S. electrical energy manufacturing in comparison with 26.1% one 12 months earlier. Electrical era by the mixture of all renewables grew three-times quicker than that of complete U.S. electrical era (9.2% vs. 3.0%). Renewables’ share {of electrical} era is now second to solely that of pure fuel whose electrical output truly dropped by 3.7% throughout the first half of 2025.
“EIA’s newest information replicate the scenario previous to enactment of the Trump/Republican megabill which can adversely future renewable power progress,” famous the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director Ken Bossong. “Nonetheless, EIA notes that U.S. builders count on half of latest electrical producing capability to return from photo voltaic in 2025 and one other 13% from wind.”
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