On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:26:34 -0400,
[email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:49:52 -0700 (PDT), bruce bowser ><[email protected]> wrote:
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 2:11:21 PM UTC-4, Unum wrote win alt.global-warming:
https://electrek.co/2022/08/15/wind-solar-provide-67-of-new-us-electrical-generating-capacity-in-first-half-of-2022/
Clean energy accounted for more than two-thirds of the new US electrical >>> generating capacity added during the first six months of 2022, according to >>> data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). >>>
Wind (5,722 megawatts) and solar (3,895 MW) provided 67.01% of the 14,352 MW
in utility-scale (that is, greater than 1 MW) capacity that came online during
the first half of 2022.
Additional capacity was provided by geothermal (26 MW), hydropower (7 MW), and
biomass (2 MW). The balance came from natural gas (4,695 MW) and oil (5 MW).
No new capacity was reported for 2022 from either nuclear power or coal. >>>
This brings clean energy�s share of total US available installed generating >>> capacity up to 26.74%. To put that in perspective, five years ago, clean >>> energy�s share was 19.7%. Ten years ago, it was 14.76%.
FERC reports that there may be as much as 192,507 MW of new solar capacity on
the way, with 66,315 MW classified as �high-probability� additions and no >>> offsetting �retirements.�
The �high-probability� additions alone would nearly double utility-scale >>> solar�s current installed capacity of 74,530 MW, while successful completion
of all expected projects would nearly quadruple it.
Notably, FERC�s forecast predates President Joe Biden signing into law the >>> Inflation Reduction Act, and that will likely ramp up solar growth even more.
Aww, Joe Manchin Republicans sink deeper and deeper.
I see it in my electric bill.
Is that because Judy sucks up all the juice trying to stay alive?
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