The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released its annual report on U.S. PV module shipments. The report shows that in 2021, U.S. PV module shipments will rise from 21.8GW in 2020 to 28.8GW in 2021.

In 2021, despite the impact of the epidemic, withholding orders and anti-dumping and anti-circumvention, U.S. PV module shipments will still achieve 32% growth.

The U.S. added 13.2 GW of large-scale ground-mounted PV in 2021, an annual record and a 25% increase from the 10.6 GW added in 2020. Research by Princeton University and its affiliates predicts these numbers could reach 50GW per year by 2024 and 100GW per year by 2031.

According to EIA statistics, small PV plants under 1 MW will add 5.4 GW in 2021, and residential installations will exceed 3.9 GW in 2021, up from 2.9 GW in 2020.

According to EIA’s previously released expectations, the United States will deploy 78.3GW of new power generation capacity (utility-scale power plants with a scale of 1 MW and above) in 2022-2023, of which photovoltaic power generation will account for 49% or about 38.3GW.