In 2023, Non-Fossil Fuel Sources Will Account for 86% of New Electric Utility Generation Capacity in the United States Amid the transition to an electrified transportation sector, efforts to decarbonize the U.S. power grid are evident in the planned additions and retirement of utility-scale electricity generating capacity. For 2023, added capacity will come primarily from […]
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
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.
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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.
Even worse, I’d image those numbers are installed capacity, not utilised.
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!
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