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Out of curiosity, I looked up the breakdown of 2021 US new energy capacity added: - 41% wind - 36% solar - 19% gas - 4% other I was actually kind of pleasa
by pizza 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I looked up the breakdown of 2021 US new energy capacity added:
- 41% wind
- 36% solar
- 19% gas
- 4% other
I was actually kind of pleasantly surprised. 28 GW capacity added, 8.5 GW capacity retired.
Total capacity 1115.68 GW generated summer 2020
Total breakdown 2021 is more like this:
- 36% Petroleum
- 32% Natural gas
- 11% Coal
- 8% Nuclear
- 12% Renewable energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/nearly-28-gw-of-new-us-generating-capacity-added-in-2021-led-by-wind-68435915 https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
- enqk 4y agoare those percentage in peak theoretical capacity or base load
- pizza 4y agoI think it’s peak output
- dredmorbius 4y agoKeep in mind that "renewable" includes hydro and geothermal, both of which are reasonably substantial and largely fully exploited. There've in fact been several notable decommissionings of hydro projects, and extant geothermal (such as The Geysers in northern California) are producing well below their peak due to field exhaustion (various factors, typically groundwater and/or actual thermal flux). Wind and solar have grown markedly, but remain a small fraction of total electrical generation. Which itself remains a fraction (roughly 1/3) of total energy consumption.