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I dug a little deeper into the EIA reports and their non-hydro renewables category is almost 90% wind. Wind and hydro alone are almost even with coal in April,
by blix 7y ago
I dug a little deeper into the EIA reports and their non-hydro renewables category is almost 90% wind. Wind and hydro alone are almost even with coal in April, with the other contributions being quite small.
- Robotbeat 7y agoSolar (if you include non-utility solar) was about 3.5% of the total electricity produced in April. That's actually pretty significant. Solar only scraped 1 percent starting in 2015. (Although I worry about the second derivative... solar's growth is not as impressive in the last 12 months as it was the 12 months prior.)
- Spooky23 7y agoSolar punches higher than its weight because it produces marginal electricity at times of peak demand.
- Gibbon1 7y agoYeah people compare solar pricing to subsidized baseload prices. Which is unfavorable. Instead of the more lucrative peeking plant pricing which is higher. Often a lot higher.
- chrisco255 7y agoThere is a huge wind power boom in north Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. I saw thousands of windmills driving through there a couple months ago, and must have passed two dozen semis loaded up with blades to build more. It's a sight to see.