Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:10:58 +0000
California is the king of solar in the United States. As of 2020, California had nearly 3 times as much solar power installed as any other state. (Of course, in relative terms, the competition is much closer, but today we’re just focused on total installed power capacity, not capacity per TWh or capacity per capita.) […]
Read moreCredit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:32:35 +0000
As of December 2020, the states with the most small-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity were California (10.6 gigawatts (GW)), New Jersey (1.9 GW), and Massachusetts (1.8 GW). Of the 4.5 GW of small-scale solar capacity added in the United States in 2020, California accounted for 31%, the largest share by far. Although Texas and Florida […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:05:39 +0000
Though Texas may broadly be associated with fossil fuels, the Lone Star State is doing quite well with renewable energy. Dr. Joshua Rhodes, an energy researcher who lives in Austin, Texas, has answered some questions for CleanTechnica about recent renewable energy growth in Texas. Before rolling into the interview, let’s run through a few facts […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:54:10 +0000
Clearly, the news story of the week — well beyond CleanTechnica — has been Texas and some neighboring regions freezing over and losing electricity. The vast majority of the power plants that went offline were thermal power plants (mostly natural gas). They were not equipped enough for the cold. A number of wind turbines were […]
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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:08:55 +0000
As CleanTechnica has reported in recent months, solar power now generates the cheapest electricity in history — according to the conservative, fossil industry–entrenched International Energy Agency. As a result, demand for solar power has been growing strongly in the United States and worldwide
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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:17:22 +0000
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently published a special short profile on New York’s renewable energy leadership and split. What I found particularly interesting in the piece, though, was the variation in renewable energy splits in the different top states
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:15:28 +0000
This report ranks US states according to the percentage of their electricity that comes from solar
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 02:44:47 +0000
After digging into an old spreadsheet to create a new report on top solar power states per capita, it crossed my mind to compare the results from the first half of 2020 with the results from 2012, which is the last time I had published such a report before today
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:23:41 +0000
If you’ve been reading CleanTechnica long enough, you know that 8 to 10 years ago, I used to publish reports on solar power capacity per capita — for both US states and countries around the world. I’m returning to these, starting with this one on the top solar states
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:53:45 +0000
In this article, I’ll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states