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The State of Renewable Energy Dashboard

Tracking the growth of clean energy technology in all 50 states

Renewables are on the rise across America. America produces more than three times as much power from solar, wind and geothermal sources as we did 10 years ago – enough to power more than 71.5 million homes. Key technologies such as electric vehicles and battery storage are also growing.

Clean energy

Data Visualization

The State of Renewable Energy dashboard allows you to track the growth of clean energy in your state and around the country. Explore your state’s renewable energy progress, then read below for more information on the benefits of clean energy … and what local and state governments can do to help accelerate the transition to clean energy.

Renewable energy brings cleaner air and water and cuts global warming pollution.

Wind and solar power reduce our dependence on polluting fossil fuels, with big benefits for our environment and health. The solar and wind power we’ve already installed in the U.S. have:

  • Cut health-threatening sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants by nearly 1 million metric tons between 2019 and 2022 – enough to prevent an estimated 1,400 premature deaths in 2022.  
  • Cut global warming pollution by 900 million metric tons between 2019 and 2022 – an amount of pollution greater than the state of Texas emits in a year.  
  • Reduced threats to our waterways such as coal ash spills and leaks of fracking wastewater. 
  • Made our electricity system more resilient by reducing dependence on fuels like gas that are volatile in price and, when installed locally on rooftops or in our neighborhoods, helping communities to withstand and recover from disasters.

How much did America’s renewable energy and clean energy technologies grow in the last 10 years? Find out more below.

Wind power

America produced enough wind energy to power more than 42 million typical homes in 2024 – 2.4 times as much wind energy as in 2015.

Solar power

America produced enough solar energy to power 28 million homes in 2024 – nearly eight times as much solar energy as in 2015.

Battery storage

America had 26.2 gigawatts of battery energy storage at the end of 2024, 89 times as much as in 2015 and 63 percent more than at the end of 2023, helping to support the use of more renewable energy and keep the lights on during extreme weather and times of grid stress.

Energy efficiency

Energy efficiency improvements installed in 2023 will save 270 terawatt-hours of power over their lifetimes – enough to power 25 million homes for a year.

Electric vehicles

There were nearly 3.3 million electric vehicles on American roads at the end of 2023 – a 25-fold increase from 2014. Meanwhile, the number of electric vehicle charging ports nationwide exceeded 218,000 at the end of 2024 – a more than sixfold increase from 2015 and a 24% increase from the year before.

Making the renewable future a reality: Recommendations for state and local governments

The past decade has seen exciting progress in clean energy. With continued progress and commitment, repowering America with clean, renewable energy is possible. To get there, state and federal governments should:

  • Defend clean energy tax credits: More than 3 million Americans have used tax credits created or expanded by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to make their homes more energy efficient, install solar panels or take other steps to transition to clean energy. Federal officials should retain those credits, while state governments should consider adopting tools and incentives to encourage clean energy adoption. 
  • Set goals and make plans: Governments should set bold goals and adopt concrete plans to transition to renewable electricity, phase out dirty fossil fuel-powered cars, trucks and trains, and transition off fossil fuels in our homes and businesses.
  • Insist on supportive policy: Governments should ensure that utility policies fully and fairly compensate investors in clean energy technology for the benefits they bring to society through mechanisms such as net metering for rooftop solar systems, and adopt policies for permitting and interconnection that make adoption of clean energy technologies easy and hassle-free.
  • Cut energy waste: Governments should encourage continued steady progress on energy efficiency by continuing and expanding efficiency programs and policies, including utility energy efficiency programs, building energy codes and appliance efficiency standards.

Click here for a downloadable fact sheet with information on clean energy progress in your state.

Data sources

Utility-scale generation of electricity, utility-scale generation of wind and geothermal energy, and estimated combined utility- and small-scale solar energy generation: U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) form EIA-923 via the EIA’s Open Data API, viewable at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/browser/electricity/electric-power-operational-data. 

Total retail sales of electricity: EIA’s forms EIA-826, EIA-861 and EIA-861M via the Open Data API, viewable at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/browser/electricity/retail-sales.

Electric vehicle registrations: Battery-electric vehicle registrations by state for 2016-on were obtained from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center, accessible at https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration. Registrations for 2014 were obtained by multiplying the battery-electric vehicle share of all plug-in vehicle registrations by the number of plug-in vehicle registrations by state from Stacy C. Davis, et al., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vehicle Technologies Fact of the Week 2015, pp. 69-74, May 2016, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240820212426/https://tedb.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Fact_of_the_Week_2015.pdf. Data for 2015 are unavailable and data for 2024 were unavailable at time of publication.

Electric vehicle charging ports: Based on historical counts from U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuel Data Center, Alternative Fueling Station Counts by State, accessed at https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/states. 2024 data are based on charging station counts as of December 31, 2024. 

Energy savings from energy efficiency programs: Based on all-sector, expected lifetime annual energy savings for 2023 from EIA’s form EIA-861 via the Open Data API, viewable at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/browser/electricity/state-electricity-profiles/energy-efficiency. These savings represent the expected savings from efficiency measures installed during 2023, and do not include savings from projects installed in previous years. The figures presented here represent savings at customer meters, not savings during generation, transmission or distribution of electricity: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report Instructions, p. 14, accessed July 31, 2023 at https://www.eia.gov/survey/form/eia_861/proposed/2023/instructions.pdf. 

Battery capacity: Based on nameplate capacity of operable generators using battery technology from December of the years analyzed, compiled from EIA’s forms EIA-860 and EIA-860M via the Open Data API, viewable at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/browser/electricity/operating-generator-capacity.

Methodology
  • All data last updated on February 27, 2025.
  • Rankings for growth are based on total increase, not percentage or per-capita change.
  • Comparisons to the number of households that could be powered by a certain amount of electricity generated or saved are based on EIA’s average annual household electricity use for the United States in 2022 of 10.791 MWh, obtained from https://web.archive.org/web/20240820212946/https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3.
  • Calculations of solar, wind and geothermal generation as a percentage of total generation are based on the sum of utility-scale and small-scale solar as reported by U.S. EIA.
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Authors

Johanna Neumann

Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy, Environment America Research & Policy Center

Johanna directs strategy and staff for Environment America's energy campaigns at the local, state and national level. In her prior positions, she led the campaign to ban smoking in all Maryland workplaces, helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and helped build the support necessary to pass the EmPOWER Maryland Act, which set a goal of reducing the state’s per capita electricity use by 15 percent. She also currently serves on the board of Community Action Works. Johanna lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family, where she enjoys growing dahlias, biking and the occasional game of goaltimate. 

Tony Dutzik

Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group

Tony Dutzik is associate director and senior policy analyst with Frontier Group. His research and ideas on climate, energy and transportation policy have helped shape public policy debates across the U.S., and have earned coverage in media outlets from the New York Times to National Public Radio. A former journalist, Tony lives and works in Boston.

Quentin Good

Policy Analyst, Frontier Group

Quentin Good is a policy analyst with Frontier Group. He has a B.A in Economics from Metropolitan State University of Denver and an M.A in International Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration from the University of Denver. He served with the U.S. Peace Corps for three years in Senegal, West Africa, as a community economic development volunteer and sector leader. Quentin lives and works in Denver.

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