Back الطاقة الشمسية في الولايات المتحدة Arabic Energía solar en los Estados Unidos Spanish Énergie solaire aux États-Unis French
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Solar power includes solar farms as well as local distributed generation, mostly on rooftops and increasingly from community solar arrays. In 2023, utility-scale solar power generated 164.5 terawatt-hours (TWh), or 3.9% of electricity in the United States. Total solar generation that year, including estimated small-scale photovoltaic generation, was 238 TWh.[2]
As of the end of 2023, the United States had 179 gigawatts (GW) of installed photovoltaic (utility and small scale) and concentrated solar power capacity combined.[3] This capacity is exceeded only by China and the European Union.[4] In 2021, 36% of all new electricity generation capacity in the country came from solar, surpassed only by wind with 41%.[5] By 2015, solar employment had overtaken oil and gas as well as coal employment in the United States.[6] In 2020, more than 230,000 Americans were employed in the solar industry.[3]
The United States conducted much early research in photovoltaics and concentrated solar power. It is among the top countries in the world in electricity generated by the sun and several of the world's largest utility-scale installations are located in the desert Southwest. The oldest solar power plant in the world is the 354-megawatt (MW) Solar Energy Generating Systems thermal power plant in California.[7] The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project in the Mojave Desert, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Las Vegas, with a gross capacity of 392 MW.[8] The 280 MW Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Phoenix, completed in 2013. When commissioned it was the largest parabolic trough plant in the world and the first U.S. solar plant with molten salt thermal energy storage.[9]
There are plans to build many other large solar plants in the United States. Many states have set individual renewable energy goals with solar power being included in various proportions. Hawaii plans 100% renewable-sourced electricity by 2045.[10] Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring California's utilities to obtain 100 percent of their electricity from zero-carbon sources by the end of 2045 (including 60% renewable energy sources by 2030).[11][12]
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- ^ "Table 1.1. Net Generation by Energy Source: Total (All Sectors)". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
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- ^ "Renewable Capacity Statistics 2022" (PDF). irena.org. p. 32. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
- ^ Dlin, Susan (February 7, 2022). "Nearly 28 GW of new US generating capacity added in 2021, led by wind". S&P Global. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
- ^ "Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S." Bloomberg.com. May 25, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^ "Segs Iii, Iv, V, Vi, Vii, Viii & Ix". Fplenergy.com. Archived from the original on August 5, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
- ^ "Brightsource Ivanpah". Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ^ Mearian, Lucas. U.S. flips switch on massive solar power array that also stores electricity: The array is first large U.S. solar plant with a thermal energy storage system, October 10, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- ^ PRESS RELEASE: Governor Ige signs bill setting 100 percent renewable energy goal in power sector, Government of Hawaii, June 8, 2015
- ^ California Sets Goal Of 100 Percent Clean Electric Power By 2045, NPR, September 10, 2018
- ^ David R. Baker (October 7, 2015). "Brown signs climate law mandating 50% renewable power by 2030". San Francisco Chronicle.
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