Solar Farms in the U.S.

The United States has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s leaders in utility-scale solar deployment, with vast solar parks powering cities, industries, and increasingly, electrified transportation. These facilities represent the backbone of America’s renewable energy transition—spanning deserts, plains, and agricultural land from California to New York.

The total solar power capacity in the U.S. in 2025 is about 150 GW, with projected growth up to 400 GW by 2030. This represents about 10% of total capacity today, and up to 30% of total capacity by 2030. Facilities with the highest electrical power consumption are hyperscale data centers (by quite a margin), oil refineries, steel mills, semiconductor fabs, and gigafactories in approximate order.

Solar vs Wind

Solar energy is the "digital tech" of renewables — modular, mass-manufactured, globally traded, and on a predictable cost-down path. PV cells benefit from global semiconductor/manufacturing economies of scale, few moving parts, quickly deployed, and cheaply maintained.

Wind, by contrast, is more like civil engineering: bespoke, location-specific, and constrained by physical scale and material inputs. Wind energy won't vanish, but its role will evolve toward gap-filling, utility-scale, coastal energy supply, and diversification rather than being the dominant growth engine like solar.

The following lists all solar farm power projects 200 MW and greater in capacity by state in the U.S. The top 3 solar-power producing states are Texas, California, and Florida.

The U.S. solar energy geography is diverse —massive desert installations in the Southwest, agrivoltaic projects in the Midwest, and coastal arrays in the Southeast. They highlight both the technical progress of solar deployment and the growing importance of distributed, resilient, and renewable energy infrastructure.