As the U.S. transitions away from fossil fuels at a faster pace than many people realize, Wisconsin has invested most in solar power compared to other clean energy technologies, a new report by a leading climate change science organization has found.

Climate Central, a nonprofit group led by a team of scientists, analyzed each state's public and private spending on clean energy since 2018 using data from the Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project of Rhodium Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. In total, the nation spent nearly $248 billion in 2023, triple what it spent in 2018.

That includes $6 billion spent in Wisconsin, the majority of it invested in solar energy. The state is an outlier among its neighbors in the upper Midwest, most of whom invested more heavily in electric vehicles. And it's in the middle of the pack nationally for how much it spent overall on clean energy technologies.