Statistics
Solar and electricity statistics
Reference figures for all 51 US jurisdictions, each with its source, retrieval date and a CSV.
What this is
These statistics pages are reference tables: one measure at a time, every state, from Form EIA-861, the mandatory annual census of US electric utilities (2024 data, retrieved 2 September 2026). Each page states its method, offers its rows as a CSV, and carries a citation block. For tested claims and multi-year analysis, see research.
The statistics
How these pages are built
Every figure comes from Form EIA-861 2024, downloaded 2 September 2026. The schedule (Net Metering, Sales to Ultimate Customers, Reliability, Advanced Meters) is named on each page.
Ratios such as household penetration or kWh per day are HyreSolar calculations from EIA inputs and are marked as such.
Prose, tables, charts and CSV rows are generated from one dataset at build time, so they cannot disagree.
EIA publishes final 861 data each autumn; pages are rebuilt at the same URLs. Statistics are refreshed semi-annually.
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Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a sales floor. We read the statute, the tariff, the code section, the federal filing or the manufacturer data sheet ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify. That rule has cost us whole sections, and it is why the rest can be checked.
- 160
- primary sources read and cited
- 228
- figures with a retrieval date
- 115
- federal and state government sources
- 66
- researched pages published
How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Statutes from the legislature’s own publishing system, federal data from the agency that collects it, code text from the adopted edition, manufacturer claims from the data sheet. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we go and read the source.
- Every figure carries its provenance. A named document and the date we retrieved it, so you can check it and so you know how old it is. Retrieval dates are not decoration: an EIA rate from May is a different fact from an EIA rate from August.
- We publish what we could not verify. Every research page carries a section naming the things we tried to establish and could not, and why. A paywalled standard, a state website that refused the request, a manufacturer that publishes no figure at all.
- We separate measurement from modeling from our own reasoning, and label which is which on the page. A laboratory measurement, an assumption inside a modeling tool and our own inference are three different kinds of claim and they are never presented as one.
- We do not sell solar, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favorable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Data as of EIA-861 2024 final release. Authorship on this site is organizational: the analysis belongs to the desk rather than to a named individual, and we do not publish credentials we do not hold. Our editorial policy sets out how we source, date and correct what we publish.
Sources & retrieval dates
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