A assessment by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign of knowledge launched by the Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC) reveals that the mixture of photo voltaic and wind accounted for 90% of recent U.S. electrical producing capability added within the first seven months of 2025. In July, photo voltaic alone offered 96% of recent capability, making it the twenty third consecutive month through which photo voltaic has held the lead amongst all new vitality sources.
Credit score: Alliant Power
In its newest month-to-month “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with information via July 31, 2025), FERC says 46 “models” of photo voltaic totaling 1.181 GW had been positioned into service in July, accounting for over 96.4% of all new producing capability added throughout the month.
The brand new amenities embody the 202.8-MW Estonian Photo voltaic & Storage Enlargement Challenge in Delta County, Texas; the 200-MW Eland Photo voltaic Farm and the 150.0-MW Northern Orchard Photo voltaic PV undertaking, each in Kern County, California; and the 150.0-MW Coldwater River Photo voltaic Challenge in Department County, Michigan.
The 434 models of utility-scale photo voltaic added throughout the first seven months of 2025 whole 16.05-GW and had been virtually three-quarters (74.4%) of the overall new capability positioned into service by all sources.
Photo voltaic has now been the biggest supply of recent producing capability added every month for twenty-three consecutive months: September 2023 to July 2025. Throughout that interval, whole utility-scale photo voltaic capability grew from 91.82 GW to 153.09 GW. No different vitality supply added something near that quantity of recent capability. Wind, for instance, expanded by 10.68 GW whereas pure fuel elevated by simply 3.74 GW.
For the primary seven months of 2025, the mixture of photo voltaic and wind (plus 4 MW of hydropower and three MW of biomass) was 89.6% of recent capability whereas pure fuel offered simply 10.2%; the steadiness got here from coal (18-MW), oil (17 MW), and waste warmth (17 MW).
Photo voltaic + wind are virtually 1 / 4 of U.S. utility-scale producing capability
Utility-scale photo voltaic’s share of whole put in capability of (11.42%) is now virtually equal to that of wind (11.81%). Taken collectively, they represent practically one-fourth (23.23%) of the U.S.’s whole obtainable put in utility-scale producing capability. No less than 25% of U.S. photo voltaic capability is within the type of small-scale programs that aren’t mirrored in FERC’s information.
With the inclusion of hydropower (7.61%), biomass (1.07%) and geothermal (0.31%), renewables at the moment declare a 32.22% 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 stays on observe to turn out to be the second largest supply of U.S. producing capability
FERC reported that there’s a “excessive chance” addition of 92.631 GW of photo voltaic between August 2025 and July 2028, in comparison with wind’s predicted 22.528-GW of recent capability. Mixed with different anticipated renewable vitality additions, a complete of 115.12 GW of recent capability could possibly be added to the grid throughout the the rest of President Donald Trump’s time period.
“With one month of Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ now beneath our belts, renewables proceed to dominate capability additions,” mentioned Ken Bossong, govt director of the SUN DAY Marketing campaign. “And photo voltaic appears poised to carry its lead within the months and years to come back.”
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