So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Next were natural gas combustion turbines, with 22, and natural gas internal combustion engines, with 21.

Onshore wind had nine projects.

Combined-cycle natural gas, despite having massive amounts of announced capacity in development, had just 3 projects that went online. The high tide of new gas plants won’t arrive for another few years.

If we look at projects in terms of generating capacity, utility-scale solar led with 11,458 megawatts, followed by batteries, 8,207 megawatts, and then onshore wind, mostly because of the SunZia projects, with 5,473 megawatts.

The three largest types of natural gas plants added a total of 2,707 megawatts of new capacity.