{"id":343862,"date":"2026-01-17T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-of-it\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:38:15","slug":"us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"US electricity demand surged in 2025 \u2013 solar handled 61% of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-of-it.jpg\" \/>Solar didn\u2019t just show up in 2025 \u2013 it carried the grid.\u00a0A new analysis from global energy think tank Ember shows that solar power accounted for 61% of the growth in US electricity demand last year, highlighting how central solar has become as power demand accelerates. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/01\/16\/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-percent\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-of-it\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":343863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}