Solar Futures Study

Dramatic improvements to solar technologies and other clean energy technologies have enabled recent rapid growth in deployment and are providing cost-effective options for decarbonizing the U.S.

The Future of Solar Energy: Trends to Watch in 2025-2026 and Beyond

The Future of Solar Energy: Trends to Watch in 2025-2026 and Beyond - Discover 9 game-changing solar energy trends shaping our sustainable future, from AI integration to floating farms.

Solar power generation drives electricity generation growth over the

In our STEO forecast, utility-scale solar is the fastest-growing source of electricity generation in the United States, increasing from 290 BkWh in 2025 to 424 BkWh by 2027. Almost 70

The Future of Solar Energy | MIT Energy Initiative

The Future of Solar Energy considers only the two widely recognized classes of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity — photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP),

The Future of Solar Energy: Solar Energy Trends 2025

Explore the future of solar in 2025—key trends, new tech, and policies driving global clean energy growth.

Spring 2025 Solar Industry Update

Solar Generation as a Percentage of Total Generation, 2014–2024 From 2014 to 2024, leading solar deployment states greatly increased solar electricity penetration.

The Future of Solar Power

Experts believe that current policies won''t get us to our 2030 goal. However, it will cause a clean energy growth spurt that will continue until 2030 and beyond. By 2035, we should see a

The momentum of the solar energy transition

Here we use data-driven conditional technology and economic forecasting modelling to establish which zero carbon power sources could become dominant worldwide.

We expect solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity

We expect solar electric generation will be the leading source of growth in the U.S. electric power sector. In our January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), which contains new forecast data

Renewable electricity – Renewables 2025 – Analysis

Globally, renewable power capacity is projected to increase almost 4 600 GW between 2025 and 2030 – double the deployment of the previous five years (2019-2024). Growth in utility-scale and distributed