Photo voltaic and wind accounted for 93% of latest U.S. electrical energy capability additions in November 2025, making photo voltaic PV the main new supply of electrical energy for 27 consecutive months, in keeping with a overview of FERC knowledge by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign. Of that proportion, photo voltaic was 72% of latest producing capability each in November and for 2025.
In accordance with FERC’s “Energy Infrastructure Update” report for November, 2.879 GW of photo voltaic began service in November. 13 of these tasks have been 100 MW or bigger, inluding the the 484.6-MW Parliament Photo voltaic Venture and the 256.3-MW Stampede Photo voltaic & Storage Enlargement Venture, which have been each in-built Texas.
By November 2024, 27.668 GW of photo voltaic had been activated, in comparison with 25.467 GW by way of November final yr. Over the last 27 months, complete utility-scale photo voltaic capability grew from 91.82 GW to 163.44 GW. Wind added 13.20 GW and pure fuel added 6.83 GW in the identical interval.
Utility-scale photo voltaic is now practically one-eighth (12.09%) of the nation’s complete electrical producing capability. Photo voltaic leads utility-scale renewable vitality output. Pure fuel and coal are the one vitality sources producing extra energy than photo voltaic, however the renewable vitality is on monitor to overhaul coal capability earlier than the top of 2026.
Wind and photo voltaic mixed accounted for practically 92.9% of capability additions in November. They now represent practically one-quarter (24.0%) of the nation’s put in utility-scale producing capability.
As well as, greater than 25% of U.S. photo voltaic capability is within the type of small-scale (rooftop) techniques that aren’t mirrored in FERC’s knowledge. Together with that extra photo voltaic capability would carry the share supplied by photo voltaic + wind to greater than 1 / 4 of the nation’s complete.
Mixed with hydropower (7.55%), biomass (1.05%) and geothermal (0.31%), renewables at present declare a 32.9% share of complete U.S. utility-scale producing capability. If small-scale photo voltaic capability is included, renewables at the moment are properly greater than one-third of complete U.S. producing capability.
FERC is anticipating photo voltaic to develop one other 86.13 GW between December 2025 and November 2028, which is greater than 4 occasions the anticipated additions for wind and greater than eight occasions the anticipated additions for pure fuel.
Regardless of President Donald Trump’s push for fossil gas deployments, renewable vitality sources are anticipated to nonetheless account for a predicted 106.492 GW of latest electrical energy through the the rest of his time period — with photo voltaic and wind probably claiming 105.951 GW of that sum. If it occurs, photo voltaic would account for 17.2% of the nation’s producing capability.
“Coupled with current court docket selections to carry ‘pauses’ on offshore wind building, the continued dominant development by photo voltaic and wind ought to ship a transparent wake-up name to the Trump administration,” stated Ken Bossong, the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director. “Renewable vitality is the longer term and won’t be stopped by the short-sighted insurance policies emanating from the White Home.”
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