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Inside Clean Energy  - An aerial view of a solar farm in Ector County, Texas by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Texas, which already leads the country in electricity generation from natural gas, coal and wind, has passed California to become the leader in utility-scale solar.  Data for 2025, released last week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, shows that Texas generated 58,634 gigawatt-hours from utility-scale solar, enough to pull ahead of California’s 53,713 gigawatt-hours.

But California can continue to claim the distinction of leading the country in electricity from small-scale solar, which EIA defines as any project with capacity of less than 1 megawatt. And if we look at the sum of utility-scale and small-scale solar, California remains ahead.