Photo voltaic accounted for 72% of recent electrical producing capability on the U.S. grid for the primary 10 months of 2025, in response to a assessment of FERC knowledge by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign. Photo voltaic PV has held this place for 26 months in a row and has now edged out wind energy as the most important supply of renewable power capability on the U.S. grid.
In October alone, photo voltaic was 60% of recent producing capability and FERC expects one other 90 GW of photo voltaic to be deployed over the following three years, eclipsing new nuclear energy and coal deployment. In FERC’s newest month-to-month “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with knowledge via October 31, 2025), 1.082 GW of photo voltaic was positioned into service in October, accounting for 59.8% of all new producing capability added throughout the month. Evaluate that to pure gasoline with 727 MW and oil with 1 MW.
The utility-scale photo voltaic added throughout the first 10 months of 2025 is simply 161 MW lower than what was put in within the first 10 months of 2024. From September 2023 to October 2025, photo voltaic has been the most important supply of recent producing capability, rising from 91.82-GW to 160.56-GW. Wind expanded by 12.39-GW whereas pure gasoline’ internet enhance was simply 6.55-GW, with a complete capability of 160.09 GW.
Photo voltaic, wind, hydropower and biomass accounted for 87.2% of all new producing capability whereas pure gasoline added 12.4%, with the rest being oil and waste warmth. Taken collectively, wind and photo voltaic represent practically one-fourth (23.79%) of america’ complete obtainable put in utility-scale producing capability. Greater than 25% of U.S. photo voltaic capability is within the type of small-scale (rooftop) methods that aren’t mirrored in FERC’s knowledge. Together with that further photo voltaic capability would carry the share supplied by photo voltaic + wind to greater than 1 / 4 of the nation’s complete, in response to the SUN DAY Marketing campaign.
All renewable power capability presently declare a 32.72% share of complete U.S. utility-scale producing capability. If small-scale photo voltaic capability is included, renewables are actually greater than one-third of complete U.S. producing capability.
Photo voltaic is on monitor to turn into the second largest supply of U.S. producing capability
Based mostly on FERC estimations, utility-scale photo voltaic is slated to account for 17.3% of put in U.S. producing capability alone in three years, inserting it in second place behind pure gasoline with an estimated 40.1% capability. Combining all estimated renewable power capability, utility scale renewables may exceed 38%.
“It has now been a full 12 months since Trump launched his assault on renewable power with a string of anti-solar and anti-wind govt orders,” stated Ken Bossong, the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s govt director. “And whereas they might have slowed progress, the financial and environmental advantages of renewable power sources proceed to drive their dramatic progress.”
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