Amite Photo voltaic in Louisiana. Credit score: NextEra Vitality
A evaluation by the SUN DAY Marketing campaign of information just released by the U.S. Vitality Data Administration (EIA) reveals that regardless of Donald Trump’s signing the Republican Congress’ anti-renewables laws in early July, solar-generated electrical energy ballooned by over 30% throughout the month whereas wind grew by virtually 14%.
Photo voltaic electrical era set new data in July and the primary seven months of 2025:
EIA’s newest month-to-month “Electric Power Monthly” report (with knowledge by means of July 31, 2025), as soon as once more confirms that photo voltaic is the fastest-growing among the many main sources of U.S. electrical energy.
In July alone, electrical era by utility-scale photo voltaic (i.e., >1-MW) ballooned by a greater than one-third (36.9%) in comparison with July 2024 whereas “estimated” small-scale (e.g., rooftop) photo voltaic PV elevated by 12.7%. Mixed, they grew by 30.4% and supplied practically one-tenth (9.4%) of the nation’s electrical output throughout the month, up from 7.5% a yr in the past.
Furthermore, utility-scale photo voltaic thermal and photovoltaic expanded by 37.4% whereas that from small-scale programs rose by 11.0% throughout the first seven 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 (29.9%) and was virtually 8.9% (utility-scale: 6.7%; small-scale: 2.2%) of whole U.S. electrical era for January-July — up from 7.0% a yr earlier.
As a consequence, solar-generated electrical energy year-to-date (YTD) simply surpassed — by over 54% — the output of the nation’s hydropower crops (5.7%). In July alone, solar-generated electrical energy greater than doubled the output of the nation’s hydropower crops. In truth, in each July and YTD, photo voltaic produced extra electrical energy than hydropower, biomass, and geothermal mixed.
Furthermore, for apparently the primary time ever, 4% extra electrical energy was generated in July by utility-scale photo voltaic than by the nation’s wind farms. Together with small-scale programs, photo voltaic out-produced wind by over 35% throughout the month.
Wind additionally made a robust displaying in July and YTD:
Wind generators throughout the U.S. produced virtually one-ninth (10.8%) of U.S. electrical energy within the first seven months of 2025 — a rise of three.5% in comparison with the identical interval a yr earlier and virtually doubled electrical era by the nation’s hydropower crops.
In July alone, wind-generated electrical energy was 13.8% higher than a yr earlier than.
Wind + photo voltaic are virtually one-fifth of whole U.S. electrical era — a bigger share than that supplied by both coal or nuclear energy:
Throughout the first seven months of 2025, electrical era by wind plus utility-scale and small-scale photo voltaic supplied virtually a fifth (19.6%) of the U.S. whole, up from 17.8% throughout the first seven months of 2024.
Additional, the mixture of wind and photo voltaic supplied 19.1% extra electrical energy than did coal throughout the first seven months of this yr, and 14.1% greater than the nation’s nuclear energy crops. In truth, as photo voltaic and wind grew quickly, nuclear-generated electrical energy dropped by 1.0%.
Electrical output YTD by the combo of all renewables was virtually 27% of whole U.S. era:
The combo of all renewables (i.e., wind and photo voltaic plus hydropower, biomass and geothermal) produced 9.9% extra electrical energy in January-July than they did a yr in the past and supplied (26.7%) of whole U.S. electrical energy manufacturing in comparison with 25.1% twelve months earlier.
Electrical era by the mixture of all renewables grew 3 times quicker than that of whole U.S. electrical era (9.9% vs. 3.3%). Renewables’ share {of electrical} era is now second to solely that of pure gasoline whose electrical output really dropped by virtually 3.5% throughout the first seven months of 2025.
“However enactment of the anti-renewables provisions within the Trump megabill, photo voltaic and wind proceed to energy forward,” stated the SUN DAY Marketing campaign’s government director Ken Bossong. “In the meantime {the electrical} output YTD by the Republicans’ most popular applied sciences — nuclear energy and pure gasoline — has really fallen.”
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