# US states by solar electricity generation, 2025

All 51 values come from U.S. Energy Information Administration for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `electricity_generation_solar`
- Unit: TWh
- Definition: Net electricity generated from solar energy in the year, in terawatt hours: utility-scale photovoltaic and solar thermal plants of 1 megawatt or more, plus the U.S. Energy Information Administration's estimate of small-scale photovoltaic systems such as rooftop panels.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity data browser: net generation, all solar (utility-scale and estimated small-scale), all sectors, annual (EIA-923 and EIA-861M) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-energy-information-administration
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Electricity data browser: net generation, all solar (utility-scale and estimated small-scale), all sectors, annual (EIA-923 and EIA-861M). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/solar-electricity-generation/us-states

| Rank | Place | TWh |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 90.1 |
| 2 | Texas | 64.07 |
| 3 | Florida | 30.13 |
| 4 | Arizona | 21.4 |
| 5 | Nevada | 15.91 |
| 6 | North Carolina | 13.76 |
| 7 | Georgia | 11.88 |
| 8 | New York | 10.36 |
| 9 | Virginia | 10.15 |
| 10 | Illinois | 8.75 |
| 11 | Ohio | 8.52 |
| 12 | Colorado | 7.82 |
| 13 | Indiana | 7.15 |
| 14 | New Mexico | 6.94 |
| 15 | Massachusetts | 6.7 |
| 16 | Utah | 6.67 |
| 17 | New Jersey | 5.81 |
| 18 | Arkansas | 5.19 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 4.44 |
| 20 | South Carolina | 3.97 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 3.65 |
| 22 | Oregon | 3.42 |
| 23 | Pennsylvania | 3.36 |
| 24 | Michigan | 3.28 |
| 25 | Maryland | 3.01 |
| 26 | Mississippi | 2.91 |
| 27 | Maine | 2.89 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 2.8 |
| 29 | Hawaii | 2.61 |
| 30 | Connecticut | 2.5 |
| 31 | Missouri | 2.39 |
| 32 | Idaho | 1.93 |
| 33 | Iowa | 1.85 |
| 34 | Kentucky | 1.76 |
| 35 | Tennessee | 1.39 |
| 36 | Alabama | 1.36 |
| 37 | Washington | 1.35 |
| 38 | Rhode Island | 1.07 |
| 39 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 40 | Kansas | 0.68 |
| 41 | Wyoming | 0.54 |
| 42 | Montana | 0.5 |
| 43 | Vermont | 0.48 |
| 44 | South Dakota | 0.45 |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 0.41 |
| 46 | Delaware | 0.4 |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 0.38 |
| 48 | West Virginia | 0.34 |
| 49 | Nebraska | 0.32 |
| 50 | Alaska | 0.03 |
| 51 | North Dakota | 0 |