86% of New US Electric Utility Generation Capacity Coming from Non-Fossil Fuels in 2023::In 2023, Non-Fossil Fuel Sources Will Account for 86% of New Electric Utility Generation Capacity in the United States
Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it’s a fucking absurd outrage that it’s anything less than 100.0%.
Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!
What a fucking moron a politician has to be to allow addition of new fossil fueled energy sources, along with everyone who is supposed to supervise that process.
It’s just another sign of the sheer insanity this world is infected with.
Base load
I don’t care what the excuses are; they aren’t valid.
That’s what nuclear is for.
Energy storage
Not always cheap or even feasible. Renewable generation has gotten quite cheap but storage will take a bit to catch on.
I think this looks better than it is. Sure, new energy generation coming from green sources is good but proportionally of existing sources it’s very small.
Total energy generated in US is 4 trillion KWh
56 billion KWh out of 4000 billion kWh is small.
You can easily check the percentage of electricity generated by non-fossil fuel sources. By that metric Wind and Solar already surpassed coal in 2022. Ofcourse, total energy also includes transportation and other sectors so that is a different metric. In that case, non-fossil fuel energy accounted for 21% of all energy consumed in the US in 2022.
But still 18% Non-Renewable…
The only thing that bothered me is that there is still a net increase in electricity produced using gas :/
Finally, a good step from US.
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