{"id":355407,"date":"2026-06-10T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-month-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:04:12","slug":"solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-month-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-month-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar beats coal in the US electricity mix for the first month ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-month-ever.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Solar generated more US electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/06\/09\/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-time-ever\/ 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\/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-electricity-mix-for-the-first-month-ever\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":355408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355407","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\/355407","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=355407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}