NEWS: The clean energy sector is bankrolling a record-breaking grid takeover.

The scoreboard: Clean power developers dumped $79B into US projects last year, spinning up over 50 GW of supply (that’s more than 90% of all new grid connections in 2025). And despite growing partisan pushback, 79% of the country’s installed clean capacity sits in GOP congressional districts—where officials may talk the talk, but clearly don’t always walk the walk.

As for this year? Developers are leaning hard into clean generation, per new EIA data, planning 43.4 GW of new utility-scale solar for 2026 (out of the unprecedented 86 GW of new capacity slated for this year). That’s a 60% solar jump from last year. Also in the 2026 queue: 24 GW of utility-scale storage to manage the growing intermittency. 

Texas is cornering this aggressive buildout, claiming over half of that new storage capacity and 40% of all new solar projects.