How much of US electricity comes from wind and solar?

Wind and solar made 17.2% of US electricity in 2025, up from 2.3% in 2010 and under 1% through 2007. Solar counts only utility-scale plants, not rooftop panels, and the 2025 figures are preliminary.

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Key facts

Measure: Share of US electricity generation (%). Written from the data below.

  • The latest figure, for 2025, is 17.2%.
  • That is up 17.2 percentage points from 0% in 1949.
  • It is the highest in the data, which go back to 1949.
  • The lowest was 0%, first reached in 1949.

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U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review (Table 7.2a)
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Chartly. “How much of US electricity comes from wind and solar?” Chart. Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review (Table 7.2a), https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/ (data as of December 31, 2025). https://chart.ly/charts/wind-and-solar-share-of-us-electricity (accessed November 4, 2026).

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Year Share of US electricity generation (%)
1949 0
1950 0
1951 0
1952 0
1953 0
1954 0
1955 0
1956 0
1957 0
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0.1
1990 0.1
1991 0.1
1992 0.1
1993 0.1
1994 0.1
1995 0.1
1996 0.1
1997 0.1
1998 0.1
1999 0.1
2000 0.2
2001 0.2
2002 0.3
2003 0.3
2004 0.4
2005 0.5
2006 0.7
2007 0.8
2008 1.4
2009 1.9
2010 2.3
2011 3
2012 3.6
2013 4.4
2014 4.9
2015 5.3
2016 6.5
2017 7.6
2018 8
2019 8.9
2020 10.7
2021 12
2022 13.7
2023 14
2024 15.6
2025 17.2

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