Sign up to receive Sierra News & Views

Get articles like this one sent directly to your inbox weekly.

With this action you affirm you want to receive Sierra Club communications and may vote on policy designated by the Sierra Club Board.

Sign up is Processing

Whoops! Something went wrong. Please email website.help@sierraclub.org

Thanks for joining the millions of Sierra Club supporters who are fighting to protect our world, and our future!

Solar power is hot on the heels of fossil fuels. In 2013, residential, nonresidential, and utility-scale solar installations in the United States added 4,863 megawatts of electricity to the nation's generating capacity, second only to natural gas, at 6,861 megawatts. (Left in the dust, appropriately, was coal power, at 1,507 megawatts.) Through the first half of 2014, 53 percent of all new electric capacity installed came from solar power.