Apr 30, 2026 Electric-utility heavyweight Blythe and McCoy Solar Energy Centers, Blythe, California. Blythe and McCoy Solar Energy Centers, Blythe, California. Courtesy NextEra Energy For the first time in decades, demand for electricity in the U.S. is rising, leaving companies scrambling to stand up new power infrastructure as quickly as possible, often at the expense of sustainability goals. As the world’s largest electric utility by market cap, NextEra sits at the center of this dramatically shifting sector. In recent years, the company has invested enough in wind and solar power to make it the world’s biggest producer of renewable energy. And even as the Trump Administration pushes companies away from renewables, NextEra insists it will build a lot more solar power, which it says is simply among the easier technologies to build amid the ongoing power crunch.…