The U.S. clean energy drive has slowed down markedly in the current year, with solar, wind, and battery capacity additions on track to climb a modest 7% in 2025 from 2024 levels, the slowest clip in over a decade. While the overall growth rate has cooled, recent data continues to show solar and wind dominating new capacity additions, accounting for nearly 90% of all new generating capacity added in the first seven months of 2025, according to FERC data. The wind sector has been particularly badly hit, with an expected capacity growth of just 1.8%…
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