The Q1 2026 Clean Power Market Report��showcases��steady development in the solar and storage sectors, while the pipeline for wind projects has slowed, due to ongoing federal��pushback��and delays.����

The pipeline for clean power projects rose by 6% compared to Q1 2025, driven primarily by a 13% growth in the solar pipeline and 8% growth in the battery storage pipeline. In contrast, the pipeline for land-based wind has stagnated, and offshore wind has plummeted by 35%. Early-and-mid-stage land-based wind projects have struggled to secure approvals from federal regulators, and offshore wind continues to weather��permitting��roadblocks and uncertainty.��

Report Highlights��

• Capacity Continues to Climb:��Cumulative clean power capacity hit 370 GW in Q1 2026, enough to power��nearly 80��million homes.������
• Pipeline in Flux:��The pipeline for clean power projects rose by 6% compared to Q1 2025, driven primarily by a 13% growth in the solar pipeline and 8% growth in the battery storage pipeline.��Due to ongoing federal delays, the pipeline for land-based wind has stagnated, and offshore wind has plummeted by 35%.
• Solar Shines:��More than 3.6 GW of utility-scale solar capacity began operations in the first quarter, pushing cumulative operating capacity to 161.1 GW, enough to power 590,000 homes.
• A Slow Quarter for Capacity Installations:��Year-over-year, overall clean energy quarterly capacity installations were down by 17%, compared to the 7,695 MW of capacity energized in Q1 2025. Q1 installations also fell by 66% compared to Q4 2025, which can��generally be��expected as first quarters are typically much slower than fourth quarters.
• Delays Add Up:��Over 6.4 GW of clean power capacity initially expected to become operational during Q1 were delayed, adding to the 53 GW backlog of delayed projects. Project developers often attribute project delays to lengthy permitting schemes, backlogged interconnection queues, and fluctuating prices for key project equipment.��
• Texas Continues to Dominate:��With over 96.4 GW of clean power projects in operations, Texas is on the verge of becoming the first state to cross the 100 GW threshold. Texas is home to 26% of online capacity in the U.S. and has more operational capacity than the next four states combined.��

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The Q1 2026 Clean Power Market Report showcases steady development in the solar and storage sectors, while the pipeline for wind projects has slowed, due to ongoing federal pushback and delays.

The pipeline for clean power projects rose by 6% compared to Q1 2025, driven primarily by a 13% growth in the solar pipeline and 8% growth in the battery storage pipeline. In contrast, the pipeline for land-based wind has stagnated, and offshore wind has plummeted by 35%. Early-and-mid-stage land-based wind projects have struggled to secure approvals from federal regulators, and offshore wind continues to weather permitting roadblocks and uncertainty.

Report Highlights

• Capacity Continues to Climb: Cumulative clean power capacity hit 370 GW in Q1 2026, enough to power nearly 80 million homes.������
• Pipeline in Flux: The pipeline for clean power projects rose by 6% compared to Q1 2025, driven primarily by a 13% growth in the solar pipeline and 8% growth in the battery storage pipeline. Due to ongoing federal delays, the pipeline for land-based wind has stagnated, and offshore wind has plummeted by 35%.
• Solar Shines: More than 3.6 GW of utility-scale solar capacity began operations in the first quarter, pushing cumulative operating capacity to 161.1 GW, enough to power 590,000 homes.
• A Slow Quarter for Capacity Installations: Year-over-year, overall clean energy quarterly capacity installations were down by 17%, compared to the 7,695 MW of capacity energized in Q1 2025. Q1 installations also fell by 66% compared to Q4 2025, which can generally be expected as first quarters are typically much slower than fourth quarters.
• Delays Add Up: Over 6.4 GW of clean power capacity initially expected to become operational during Q1 were delayed, adding to the 53 GW backlog of delayed projects. Project developers often attribute project delays to lengthy permitting schemes, backlogged interconnection queues, and fluctuating prices for key project equipment.
• Texas Continues to Dominate: With over 96.4 GW of clean power projects in operations, Texas is on the verge of becoming the first state to cross the 100 GW threshold. Texas is home to 26% of online capacity in the U.S. and has more operational capacity than the next four states combined.

The full Q1 2026 report��is also available to ŷ����ɫƬ Members.

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Clean power manufacturing contributes $31 billion to U.S. GDP annually and supports 216,000 American jobs.

Go here for an interactive, data-driven dive into the manufacturing report.

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Report Highlights

• Good-paying jobs:��Clean energy factory workers earn 35% more than the average American worker.����
• Significant growth in 2025:��70 new manufacturing facilities came online in 2025, bringing total to over 825 facilities across all 50 states with large clusters in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia,��Ohio��and North Carolina.������
• Energizing communities: Every clean energy manufacturing job supports an additional four jobs across the broader U.S. economy – one additional job from driving upstream activities, and three additional jobs from household spending.��
• Core power: More than 300 U.S. factories are producing the core components of clean energy projects, including wind blades, towers, nacelles, solar modules, and batteries.��
• Cross-technology capacity:��Domestic manufacturing capacity is now sufficient to meet U.S. demand for solar modules, battery modules, wind towers, and wind nacelles.��
• Looking��into ŷ����ɫƬ’s crystal ball: By 2030, over 950 manufacturing facilities are expected to support 374,000 jobs.��

As these frameworks continue to evolve, increasing attention is placed on operational reliability considerations associated with emerging load characteristics and dynamic load behavior. At the same time, grid operators and policymakers are evaluating approaches that can facilitate reliable and timely energization of large-load facilities while long-term transmission infrastructure is developed, including flexible frameworks designed to support accelerated integration under evolving system conditions.

This load growth era represents an enormous opportunity for the clean energy industry, but for that opportunity to be realized, large load and generator interconnection processes must be designed in ways that are transparent, consistent with principles of open access, and are not unduly discriminatory to clean energy resources.

For these reasons, ŷ����ɫƬ seeks to establish general advocacy principles and guidelines that can be utilized by ŷ����ɫƬ and member companies to craft regulatory frameworks that will facilitate the interconnection of large loads, while also creating market opportunities for clean power resources.

Resource uploaded May 2026

In 2025, the clean power sector invested��$79 billion��in new projects, supported more than 1.4 million jobs, and accounted for over 90% of all new electricity capacity added to the grid.����

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Resource added April 28, 2026