Photo voltaic accounted for 72% of latest electrical producing capability on the U.S. grid for the primary 10 months of 2025, in response to a overview of FERC information 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 vitality capability on the U.S. grid.
In October alone, photo voltaic was 60% of latest 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 information by 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 through the month. Examine that to pure fuel with 727 MW and oil with 1 MW.
The utility-scale photo voltaic added through 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 latest producing capability, rising from 91.82-GW to 160.56-GW. Wind expanded by 12.39-GW whereas pure fuel’ web improve 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 fuel added 12.4%, with the rest being oil and waste warmth. Taken collectively, wind and photo voltaic represent almost one-fourth (23.79%) of the US’ whole 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 information. Together with that extra photo voltaic capability would convey the share supplied by photo voltaic + wind to greater than 1 / 4 of the nation’s whole, in response to the SUN DAY Marketing campaign.
All renewable vitality capability at present declare a 32.72% share of whole U.S. utility-scale producing capability. If small-scale photo voltaic capability is included, renewables at the moment are greater than one-third of whole U.S. producing capability.
Photo voltaic is on monitor to grow to be 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 fuel with an estimated 40.1% capability. Combining all estimated renewable vitality capability, utility scale renewables may exceed 38%.
“It has now been a full 12 months since Trump launched his assault on renewable vitality with a string of anti-solar and anti-wind government orders,” mentioned Ken Bossong, the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director. “And whereas they could have slowed progress, the financial and environmental advantages of renewable vitality sources proceed to drive their dramatic progress.”
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