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https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/10/23/u-s-solar-generation-has-grown-12x-in-a-decade/>
"The past decade has shown a rise in renewable energy from an alternative
source to an increasingly important feature in the United States energy mix.
Environment America showed in its
Renewables on the Rise annual report that
solar now generates 12 times as much electricity as it did in 2013.
The U.S. produced enough solar energy to power 19 million homes in 2022.
Cumulatively, over 153 GW of solar capacity has been installed through the
first half of 2023. And the growth has only begun to ramp up. Over 32 GW of
installations are expected in 2023, representing a 52% growth over 2022 totals.
Solar represented 54% of all new electricity-generating capacity additions in
the first quarter of 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie, which projects that
cumulative installations will more than double by 2028 to 375 GW.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) forecasts strong growth in
solar for years to come. It expects over 83 GW of “high probability” solar
capacity additions through August 2026. This dwarfs the 4 GW of natural gas
additions expected through that date.
FERC said that the 83 GW of “high probability” solar additions may be quite
conservative. There is over 214 GW of solar additions in the three-year project
pipeline.
Other renewables are rising alongside solar as well. Environment America
reports that the U.S. sourced nearly 17% of its electricity from solar, wind,
and geothermal sources in 2022. This is up from just over 5% in 2013. Fourteen
states produced more than 30% of total electricity from those three
emissions-free sources in 2022, up from just two states in 2013.
Over that period, wind energy has grown 2.6 times, achieving enough generation
to power the equivalent of 41 million typical U.S homes.
Nearly one million plug-in electric vehicles were sold in 2022, a nearly 10x
increase from 2013. Electric vehicle chargers have also scaled in that time,
reaching 151,000 new installations in 2022, an 18-fold increase."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
