A evaluation by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign of knowledge just released by the U.S. Vitality Data Administration (EIA) reveals that photo voltaic offered over 11% of whole U.S. electrical technology in Might whereas wind + photo voltaic produced over one-fifth and the combo of all renewable vitality sources generated practically 30%.
EIA’s newest month-to-month “Electrical Energy Month-to-month” report (with knowledge via Might 31, 2025), confirms that photo voltaic continues to be the quickest rising among the many main sources of U.S. electrical energy.
In Might alone, electrical technology by utility-scale photo voltaic (i.e., >1-MW) elevated by a 3rd (33.3%) in comparison with Might 2024 whereas “estimated” small-scale (e.g., rooftop) photo voltaic PV elevated by 8.9%. Mixed, they grew by 26.4% and offered over 11% of the nation’s electrical output throughout the month.
For the primary time ever, the combo of utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic produced extra electrical energy than wind: photo voltaic – 38,965 GWh; wind – 36,907-GWh.
Furthermore, utility-scale photo voltaic thermal and photovoltaic expanded by 39.8% whereas that from small-scale programs rose by 10.7% throughout the first 5 months of 2025 in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. The mixture of utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic elevated by virtually a 3rd (31.1%) and was virtually 8.4% of whole U.S. electrical technology for January-Might – up from 6.6% a 12 months earlier.
As a consequence, solar-generated electrical energy simply surpassed the output of the nation’s hydropower vegetation (6.1%). In reality, photo voltaic is now producing extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass and geothermal mixed.
Wind + photo voltaic are over one-fifth of whole U.S. electrical technology — a bigger share than that offered by both coal or nuclear energy:
Through the first 5 months of 2025, electrical technology by wind plus utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic offered over a fifth (20.5%) of the U.S. whole, up from 18.7% throughout the first 5 months of 2024. In simply the month of Might, photo voltaic plus wind accounted for practically 21.5% of U.S. electrical output.
Through the first 5 months of this 12 months, the mixture of wind and photo voltaic offered 26.2% extra electrical energy than did coal and 15.4% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy vegetation. In Might alone, the disparity elevated additional when photo voltaic + wind out-produced coal and nuclear energy by 55.7% and 22.1% respectively.
Electrical output by the combo of all renewables was virtually 30% in Might:
The combo of all renewables (i.e., wind and photo voltaic plus hydropower, biomass and geothermal) produced 9.7% extra electrical energy in January-Might than they did a 12 months in the past (7.6% extra in Might alone) and offered (28.1%) of whole U.S. electrical energy manufacturing in comparison with 26.5% twelve months earlier.
Electrical technology by the mixture of all renewables in simply the month of Might offered virtually 30% (29.7%) of whole U.S. electrical technology. Renewables’ share {of electrical} technology is now second to solely that of pure gasoline whose electrical output truly dropped by 5.9% throughout the month.
“Photo voltaic and wind proceed to develop, set new information, and out-produce each coal and nuclear energy,” mentioned SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director Ken Bossong. “Consequently, the continuing Republican assault towards renewables will not be solely misguided and illogical but additionally a very good instance of capturing oneself within the foot.”
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