Photo voltaic and wind accounted for 93% of recent U.S. electrical energy capability additions in November 2025, making photo voltaic PV the main new supply of electrical energy for 27 consecutive months, in response to a evaluation of FERC knowledge by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign. Of that proportion, photo voltaic was 72% of recent producing capability each in November and for 2025.
Based on FERC’s “Energy Infrastructure Update” report for November, 2.879 GW of photo voltaic began service in November. 13 of these initiatives have been 100 MW or bigger, inluding the the 484.6-MW Parliament Photo voltaic Challenge and the 256.3-MW Stampede Photo voltaic & Storage Enlargement Challenge, which have been each inbuilt Texas.
By November 2024, 27.668 GW of photo voltaic had been activated, in comparison with 25.467 GW via November final 12 months. Over the past 27 months, complete utility-scale photo voltaic capability grew from 91.82 GW to 163.44 GW. Wind added 13.20 GW and pure gasoline added 6.83 GW in the identical interval.
Utility-scale photo voltaic is now practically one-eighth (12.09%) of the nation’s complete electrical producing capability. Photo voltaic leads utility-scale renewable power output. Pure gasoline and coal are the one power sources producing extra energy than photo voltaic, however the renewable power is on observe to overhaul coal capability earlier than the tip of 2026.
Wind and photo voltaic mixed accounted for practically 92.9% of capability additions in November. They now represent practically one-quarter (24.0%) of the nation’s put in utility-scale producing capability.
As well as, greater than 25% of U.S. photo voltaic capability is within the type of small-scale (rooftop) programs that aren’t mirrored in FERC’s knowledge. 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 complete.
Mixed with hydropower (7.55%), biomass (1.05%) and geothermal (0.31%), renewables at the moment declare a 32.9% share of complete U.S. utility-scale producing capability. If small-scale photo voltaic capability is included, renewables are actually properly greater than one-third of complete U.S. producing capability.
FERC is anticipating photo voltaic to develop one other 86.13 GW between December 2025 and November 2028, which is greater than 4 occasions the anticipated additions for wind and greater than eight occasions the anticipated additions for pure gasoline.
Regardless of President Donald Trump’s push for fossil gasoline deployments, renewable power sources are anticipated to nonetheless account for a predicted 106.492 GW of recent electrical energy throughout the the rest of his time period — with photo voltaic and wind probably claiming 105.951 GW of that sum. If it occurs, photo voltaic would account for 17.2% of the nation’s producing capability.
“Coupled with latest court docket selections to elevate ‘pauses’ on offshore wind development, the continued dominant progress by photo voltaic and wind ought to ship a transparent wake-up name to the Trump administration,” mentioned Ken Bossong, the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s govt director. “Renewable power is the long run and won’t be stopped by the short-sighted insurance policies emanating from the White Home.”
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