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Actually what struck me from your link is how fast renewables are growing. Your linked article refers to the US only, but from that article, wind was 7% of pow
by martinpw 4y ago
Actually what struck me from your link is how fast renewables are growing.
Your linked article refers to the US only, but from that article, wind was 7% of power generation and solar was 2% in 2019.
By comparison, in the first six months of 2022 the equivalent number for wind is 11.5% and for solar is 5%:
https://electrek.co/2022/08/25/us-renewables-first-half-2022/ https://electrek.co/2022/08/25/us-renewables-first-half-2022...
So wind+solar have gone from 9% to 16.5% of US electricity production in 2.5 years? That is a fairly remarkable growth rate, assuming I am not misinterpreting the data somehow.