In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Native American author Robin Wall Kimmerer writes of the “Honorable Harvest” as a means of maintaining a habitable Earth for future generations. Discussing energy, she reflects that “[it] does not mean we can’t consume the energy we need, but it does mean that we honorably take only what is given. The wind blows every day, every day the sun shines, every day the waves roll against the shore, and the Earth is warm below us. We can understand these renewable sources of energy as given to us, since they are the sources that have powered life on the planet for as long as there has been a planet. We need not destroy the Earth to make use of them. Solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy – the so-called “clean energy” harvests – when they are wisely used, seem to me to be consistent with the ancient rules of the Honorable Harvest.”
In 2023, about 21% of electricity generation was from renewable energy sources, with 60% from fossil fuels and 19% from nuclear which although not a renewable is nonetheless a clean energy. Wind accounted for the largest share of renewables, producing 10.2% of electricity. Hydropower came in second with 5.7%. Next was solar with 3.9%, biomass with 1.1% and geothermal at 0.4%.
By 2025, domestic solar energy generation was expected to increase by 75%, and wind by 11%.
By September 2026, wind and solar energy made up 93% of the U.S. renewable energy output.
Annual U.S. renewable energy production increased by 11% in early 2026.
24 states have established their own clean energy goals to boost renewable production.
The map and table below show the amount of renewable energy each state produced over the most recent one-year period on record at the time of writing (July 2025 to June 2026). It also shows the percentage of each state's total power generated by renewable energy sources.
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