What each side is building
The technology mix of the power pipeline in red states versus blue states.
What does it show?
The technology mix of each side's pipeline. Red states hold 217 GW of planned capacity (68% solar, battery, and wind — plus nearly all the new gas); blue states hold 69 GW (89% clean).
Methodology
The latest planned inventory summed by technology group and state bucket. States are partitioned by the statewide winner of the 2024 presidential election (31 red, 20 blue including DC; ME and NE by statewide vote, ignoring their district splits). The color of a state is political fact from the 2024 result, not an estimate. Power in territories falls in neither bucket.
Limits
State lines are coarse: solar country inside blue states often votes red, and county-level election returns would sharpen the split at the cost of an external dataset. Differences between the buckets partly reflect what each side builds — offshore wind, concentrated in blue states, slips worst of all technologies — not only how each side permits and builds. As a robustness check, the split excluding wind entirely still shows blue-state power running later: 47% behind schedule vs 39% (the full-pipeline gap is 49% vs 41%), so the gap is not an offshore-wind artifact.