The newest “Electric Power Monthly” report from the U.S. Power Data Administration (EIA) reveals that photo voltaic grew by 29.9% in September 2025 in comparison with one 12 months earlier, and offered 9.7% of the nation’s electrical output throughout the month, up from 7.6% in 2024.
Wheatridge Photo voltaic, Wind and Battery Power Heart in Lexington, Oregon on Could 16, 2022.
Utility-scale photo voltaic expanded by 35.8% whereas that from small-scale techniques rose by 11.2% throughout the first 9 months of 2025 in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. The mix of utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic elevated by virtually one-third (29.0%) and produced a bit over 9% (utility-scale: 6.85%; small-scale: 2.16%) of complete U.S. electrical era for January-September — up from 7.2% a 12 months earlier. That is based on a overview of the information by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign.
For the third consecutive month, utility-scale photo voltaic generated extra electrical energy than the nation’s wind farms — by 4% in July, by 15% in August, and by 9% in September. Together with residential techniques, photo voltaic has out-produced wind 5 months in a row and by over 40% throughout September.
Equally, solar-generated electrical energy year-to-date (YTD) simply surpassed — by virtually 65% — the output of the nation’s hydropower crops (5.5% of complete era). In September alone, solar-generated electrical energy greater than doubled the output of the nation’s hydropower crops. In reality, in each September and YTD, photo voltaic produced extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass and geothermal mixed.
Through the first 9 months of 2025, electrical era by wind plus utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic offered 18.8% of the U.S. complete, up from 17.1% throughout the first three-quarters of 2024. Additional, the mixture of wind and photo voltaic offered 15.1% extra electrical energy than did coal throughout the first 9 months of this 12 months, and 9.8% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy crops. In reality, as photo voltaic and wind expanded, nuclear-generated electrical energy dropped by 0.1%.
The combination of all renewables produced 8.7% extra electrical energy in January-September than they did a 12 months in the past and offered 25.6% of complete U.S. electrical energy manufacturing in comparison with 24.2% one 12 months earlier. Renewables’ share {of electrical} era is now second to solely that of pure gasoline whose electrical output truly dropped by 3.8% throughout the first 9 months of 2025.
“The Trump Administration’s efforts to jump-start nuclear energy and fossil fuels aren’t succeeding,” famous the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s govt director Ken Bossong. “Capability additions by photo voltaic, wind, and battery storage proceed to dramatically outpace gasoline, coal and nuclear — and by rising margins.”
