{"id":20992,"date":"2025-05-14T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:04:05","slug":"2025-05-14-solar-and-wind-accounted-for-almost-98-of-new-us-electrical-generating-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20992","title":{"rendered":"2025-05-14 Solar And Wind Accounted For Almost 98% Of New US Electrical Generating Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quote\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;Solar and wind accounted for almost 98% of new US electrical generating capacity added in Q1 2025, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign.<br><br>Solar and wind also made up an impressive 100% of new capacity in March, and March was the 19th consecutive month in which solar was the largest source of new capacity.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dxF1Y4Boke\"><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/05\/14\/ferc-solar-wind-q1-2025\/\">FERC: Solar + wind made up 98% of new US power generating capacity in Q1 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;FERC: Solar + wind made up 98% of new US power generating capacity in Q1 2025&#8221; &#8212; Electrek\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/05\/14\/ferc-solar-wind-q1-2025\/embed\/#?secret=zzhpYjSHgY#?secret=dxF1Y4Boke\" data-secret=\"dxF1Y4Boke\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or&nbsp; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064672212764\/posts\/pfbid02qBUzyvbAwC9AE7LTJeQnsXqwYLSVcaQYmbUnzpakbjN6Af71dnLESuARu6vt2gPtl\/?mibextid=6yaNxA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;Solar and wind accounted for almost 98% of new US electrical generating capacity added in Q1 2025, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Solar and wind also made up an impressive 100% of new capacity in March, and March was the 19th consecutive month in<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20992\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1601,255,2647,950,722,143,34,543,542],"tags":[4177,455,549],"class_list":["post-20992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-consumer-information","category-generation-electrical-system","category-generation","category-newsmedia","category-photovoltaic-and-solar-cells-or-panels","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-new-us-generating-capacity","tag-solar","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20993,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions\/20993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}