Over eight gigawatts of new power generation capacity went online in the first quarter of 2024 and nearly all of it was renewable: 5.5 gigawatts...
4 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the fourth quarter of 2023. Over eight gigawatts of this fourth quarter surge was large-scale...
7.2 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the third quarter of 2023. Half of that capacity (3.6 gigawatts) was large-scale solar alone,...
Nearly 11 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the second quarter of 2023. Over half of that capacity was solar power (5.5...
Eight gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the first quarter of 2023. For the third quarter in a row, over half of...
Take a look at a year’s worth of power generation buildout in the United States, illustrated by two simple charts.… Read More
Fossil gas contributed only five percent of new power plant capacity in the second quarter of 2021. Gas has pitched in less than 10 percent...
Wind energy took the prize for the most new generating capacity in the first quarter of 2021, which included the first utility-owned offshore wind project....
The U.S. energy industry in 2020: though the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic showed up, renewables resources showed out. Here’s the latest update from ILSR’s...
Renewables are bouncing back after a COVID-19 pandemic punch; in the third quarter of 2020, solar comprised a near-record 60 percent of new power generation...
New renewable energy beat out new fossil generation in the second quarter of 2020, but the hampering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have begun to...
New solar capacity hit a record high in the first quarter of 2020. Will the coronavirus pandemic slow renewable energy installation for the rest of...
The growth of solar has continued at a furious pace, with a new record of 6.2 gigawatts installed in the United States in 2014. But...
The rise of solar power allows a further democratizing of the electricity system, and these charts illustrate how 2014 was a banner year for solar,...