According to online magazine Fast Company: "A year after President Trump took office, clean energy is still growing in the U.S.
In 2025, nearly all new power added to the grid came from solar, wind, and batteries. In September, for example, solar made up 98% of new capacity".

Revolution wind has successfully fought off two stop-work orders on their project off the coast of Rhode Island by filing injunctions.

Strange days indeed.

Yes.

and yet fossil fuels still dominate.... 84% of primary energy in 2025.

Go figure.

mhaze,

No one's disputing that fossil fuels still dominate total primary energy. That's a stock measure built up over decades.

The point - which you're sidestepping - is that almost all new electricity capacity being added is now non-fossil. Those two things can be true at the same time, and for a long time.

Transitions don't show up first in totals; they show up in marginal additions. "84% today" tells us where we are. "98% of new capacity" tells us where the system is heading unless something intervenes.

So yes - go figure. That's exactly how infrastructure transitions work.

"No one's disputing that fossil fuels still dominate total primary energy."

Oh good. Some reality enters the room.

Rather funny to be crowing that things are changing despite Trump when he's barely had time to make the changes he was elected for. Apparently transition takes time except that Trump should have changed things overnight.

We'll see what the energy mix looks like after a decade of nuclear builds attached to AI centres has occurred as well as the effects of the new vehicle regulations and the falling price of primary fossil fuels in the US.

mhaze,

I don't think anyone's suggested Trump should have "changed things overnight". My point was the opposite: infrastructure transitions are slow, and what we see in 2025-26 reflects decisions locked in years earlier.

That's why total primary energy today and marginal additions today can tell different stories without contradiction. One is a legacy stock, the other is a leading indicator.

If, over the next decade, policy shifts toward nuclear, AI-linked demand, or cheaper fossil fuels change what gets financed, that will show up first in new builds - exactly the same mechanism at work now.

So yes, transitions take time. That's the explanation for why nothing here is especially "strange".