Solar capacity
RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XC3-BMVT0FP162-MBJPR5
United States · 2026
EIA projects solar capacity in the United States at 181 gigawatts in 2026.
Power generation capacity in United States: every year, the rank and how it is measured
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Electricity, Coal and Renewables
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
U.S. solar capacity (gigawatts) 123 151 181 222
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APA
U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2026). Short-Term Energy Outlook. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPR5
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- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Short-Term Energy Outlook." 2026, https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPR5.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Short-Term Energy Outlook." 2026. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPR5.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2026solarmbjpr5, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {Short-Term Energy Outlook}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPR5}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Short-Term Energy Outlook
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Electricity, Coal and Renewables
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
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