Photo voltaic electrical era in america continues to set information, in line with information from the U.S. Vitality Info Administration (EIA).
EIA’s newest month-to-month “Electric Power Monthly” report (with information by August 31, 2025) exhibits that utility-scale photo voltaic era in August elevated practically 30% from August 2024, whereas rooftop photo voltaic elevated 10.8%. Mixed, they supplied 9.5% of the nation’s electrical output throughout August, up from 7.6% one 12 months in the past.
Orange Grove Photo voltaic challenge in Jim Wells County, Texas.
The SUN DAY Marketing campaign reviewed the EIA information and located that solar-generated electrical energy year-to-date (YTD) simply surpassed — by over 58% — the output of the nation’s hydropower crops (5.6% of whole era). In August alone, solar-generated electrical energy greater than doubled the output of the nation’s hydropower crops. In actual fact, in each August and YTD, photo voltaic produced extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass and geothermal mixed.
Furthermore, for the second consecutive month, utility-scale photo voltaic generated extra electrical energy than the nation’s wind farms — by 4% in July and by 15% in August. Together with small-scale methods, photo voltaic has out-produced wind 4 months in a row and by virtually 50% throughout August.
Throughout the first eight months of 2025, electrical era by wind and all photo voltaic supplied virtually one-fifth (19.1%) of the U.S. whole, up from 17.2% through the first two-thirds of 2024. The mix of wind and photo voltaic supplied 16.2% extra electrical energy than did coal through the first eight months of this 12 months, and 11.7% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy crops. In actual fact, as photo voltaic and wind expanded, nuclear-generated electrical energy dropped by 0.7%.
The combination of all renewables produced 9% extra electrical energy in January-August than they did a 12 months in the past and supplied (26.1%) of whole U.S. electrical energy manufacturing in comparison with 24.5% twelve months earlier. Renewables’ share {of electrical} era is now second to solely that of pure gasoline whose electrical output truly dropped by virtually 4.1% through the first eight months of 2025.
Sturdy progress was additionally skilled by battery storage which grew by 63.9% through the previous 12 months and added 13,377.5 MW of latest capability. In the midst of the previous 12 months, battery storage truly surpassed pumped hydro storage (PHS) — in October 2024 — and now accounts for 50% extra storage capability than PHS. EIA additionally notes that deliberate battery capability additions through the subsequent 12 months whole 20,179.8 MW.
Alternatively, pure gasoline capability elevated by solely 3,337.7 MW and nuclear energy added a mere 46.0 MW. In the meantime, coal capability plummeted by 4,185.1 MW and petroleum-based capability fell by a further 658.7 MW.
Thus, through the previous 12 months, renewable power capability, together with battery storage and small-scale photo voltaic, ballooned by 55,419.6 MW whereas that of all fossil fuels and nuclear energy mixed truly declined by 1,486.3 MW.
“The Trump Administration and its Republican supporters in Congress might sluggish renewable power progress a bit,” famous the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director Ken Bossong. “Nonetheless, EIA’s information reinforce the conclusion that the transition to photo voltaic, wind, different renewables and storage continues, is accelerating, and has turn into inevitable.”
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