New York has 637 solar farms: 9.6% of the US total of 6,611. That ranks #3 by count and #10 per person (3.21 per 100,000 residents) of 51.
Source: U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database v4.0 (USGS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), 2026. Every ground-mounted facility of 1 MW or more in the database, at its own coordinates. Rooftop and small community solar are not in this database.
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