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> So where is this 10GW electric supply going to come from If the US petro-regime wasn't fighting against cheap energy sources this would be a rounding error i
by mullingitover 1y ago
> So where is this 10GW electric supply going to come from
If the US petro-regime wasn't fighting against cheap energy sources this would be a rounding error in the country's solar deployment.
China deployed 277GW of solar in 2024 and is accelerating, having deployed 212GW in the first half of 2025. 10 GW could be a pebble in the road, but instead it will be a boulder.
Voters should be livid that their power bills are going up instead of plummeting.
- bushbaba 1y agoHow would that solar power a DC at night or on a cloudy day? Energy storage isn’t cheap.
- mullingitover 1y agoIn 2025 it’s cheaper to demolish an operating coal plant and replace it with solar and battery, and prices are still dropping.
- parineum 1y agoWhy aren't all these businesses doing that then?
- parineum 1y agoI'm living in one of the most expensive electricity markets in the US. It has a lot more to do with the state shutting down cheap petro energy (natural gas) and nuclear then replacing it with... tbd.
- Saline9515 1y agoFyi capacity announced is very far from the real capacity when dealing with renewables. It's like saying that you bought a Ferrari so now you can drive at 300km/h on the road all of the time. In mid latitudes, 1 GW of solar power produces around 5.5 GWh/day. So the "real" equivalent is a 0.23 GW gas or nuclear plant (even lower when accounting for storage losses). But "China installed 63 GW-equivalent" of solar power is a bit less interesting, so we go for the fake figures ;-)
- FooBarWidget 1y agoYou think they don't know that too? You can bet they're investing heavily in grid-level storage too.
- Saline9515 1y agoI was commenting the initial number announcement. And storage at this scale right now doesn't exist. The most common way, water reservoirs, requires hard-to-find sites that are typically in the Himalaya, so far away from the production place. And the environmental cost isn't pretty either.