California and Texas are the two largest producers of electricity from renewable power, and dominate most discussions about renewable energy generation in the United States.
But several other states have developed far larger shares of renewable capacity within their utility-scale generation systems, and so draw a greater proportion of clean power in state energy systems.
By ranking the amount of renewable capacity within utility generation systems, it is clear that several other states beyond California and Texas are helping to drive energy transition efforts across the United States.
CLEAN CAPACITY
In terms of total renewable energy capacity at the utility level, Iowa and New Mexico come out on top and are the only states that boast more than 50% of utility-scale generation capacity from renewable sources.
In total, 55.43% of Iowa’s utility…
