Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
U.S. small-scale solar generation has quadrupled in the last decade
What the source reported
Source-reportedWe estimate that U.S. generation from small-scale or rooftop solar photovoltaic systems (smaller than 1 megawatt of capacity) has increased from 18,812 gigawatthours (GWh) to 92,979 GWh over the last decade. The four states with the highest generation of small-scale solar in the country-California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida-are in regions with more abundant solar resources. Even though it is in a region with lower solar resources, New York ranks as the fifth-largest rooftop solar generation producer as a result of capacity growth supported by technology improvements and state incentives.
- Publication
- EIA Today in Energy · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 16th October 2026
- Original report
- eia.gov
ProcIntel stores what the source published in its feed — a headline, a summary and a link. It does not store or reproduce the full article.
What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global, US
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 16th October 2026 · 16:29
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (31.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (28.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth