In 2025, more than 1 million residential solar systems were installed in the United States, which means the country is now looking at an estimated 5.7 million solar systems. In 2022, these systems were already generating a whopping 61,281 GWh of electricity.

With the election of President Donald Trump, the United States began halting action on climate change and retreating to fossil fuels, leaving some to wonder if the transition from coal, oil, and gas to renewable energy is dead. The world’s focus shifted almost overnight from concern about the impacts of climate change to anxiety about the global economy as the US president launched trade wars around the world.

On April 28, 2025, a catastrophic electricity blackout left 60 million people in Spain and Portugal without power when 15 gigawatts vanished from the grid in seconds.