Nearly Half of U.S. Utility-Scale Capacity Installed in 2017 Came from Renewables

Jan. 10, 2018

Once final data are in, the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects about 25 gigawatts of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to have been added to the power grid during 2017, nearly half of which use renewable technologies, especially wind and solar. Another 3.5 gigawatts of small-scale solar net capacity additions are estimated to have come online in 2017. In 2017, 37% of wind generation occurred in the Midwest, 37% in the South, 21% in the West, and the remaining 4% in the Northeast. Learn more.