Solar and Battery Storage to make up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024

[abu afak]

People say "no future," "not economical."
But in fact Solar is the cheapest form of power generation in the right scenarios and had a stunning year in 2023,
and appears it will again in 2024.


FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of New U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024
U.S. planned utility-scale electric-generating capacity additions.

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2023


Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. This addition would be 55% more added capacity than the 40.4 GW added in 2023 (the most since 2003) and points to a continued rise in industry activity.
We expect solar to account for the largest share of new capacity in 2024, at 58%, followed by battery storage, at 23%.

Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.

More than half of the new utility-scale solar capacity is planned for three states: Texas (35%), California (10%), and Florida (6%). Outside of these states, the Gemini solar facility in Nevada plans to begin operating in 2024. With a planned photovoltaic capacity of 690 megawatts (MW) and battery storage of 380 MW, it is expected to be the largest solar project in the United States when fully operational.

Battery storage. We also expect battery storage to set a record for annual capacity additions in 2024."..."
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Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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[ding]

People say "no future," "not economical."
But in fact Solar is the cheapest form of power generation in the right scenarios and had a stunning year in 2023,
and appears it will again in 2024.


FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of New U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024
U.S. planned utility-scale electric-generating capacity additions.







View attachment 903250
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2023


Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. This addition would be 55% more added capacity than the 40.4 GW added in 2023 (the most since 2003) and points to a continued rise in industry activity.
We expect solar to account for the largest share of new capacity in 2024, at 58%, followed by battery storage, at 23%.

Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.

More than half of the new utility-scale solar capacity is planned for three states: Texas (35%), California (10%), and Florida (6%). Outside of these states, the Gemini solar facility in Nevada plans to begin operating in 2024. With a planned photovoltaic capacity of 690 megawatts (MW) and battery storage of 380 MW, it is expected to be the largest solar project in the United States when fully operational.

Battery storage. We also expect battery storage to set a record for annual capacity additions in 2024."..."
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Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Looks like battery storage is lagging woefully behind solar generation. Why do you think that is?

 

[ding]

People say "no future," "not economical."
But in fact Solar is the cheapest form of power generation in the right scenarios and had a stunning year in 2023,
and appears it will again in 2024.


FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of New U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024
U.S. planned utility-scale electric-generating capacity additions.







View attachment 903250
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2023


Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. This addition would be 55% more added capacity than the 40.4 GW added in 2023 (the most since 2003) and points to a continued rise in industry activity.
We expect solar to account for the largest share of new capacity in 2024, at 58%, followed by battery storage, at 23%.

Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.

More than half of the new utility-scale solar capacity is planned for three states: Texas (35%), California (10%), and Florida (6%). Outside of these states, the Gemini solar facility in Nevada plans to begin operating in 2024. With a planned photovoltaic capacity of 690 megawatts (MW) and battery storage of 380 MW, it is expected to be the largest solar project in the United States when fully operational.

Battery storage. We also expect battery storage to set a record for annual capacity additions in 2024."..."
[.......]

Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Why is battery storage included in the generating numbers?

 

[citygator]

Biden really has this clean energy thing licked. I wonder what else he can do over the next 4 years?

 

[Oddball]

Biden really has this clean energy thing licked. I wonder what else he can do over the next 4 years?

"Clean" if you don't count cobalt, cadmium, and lithium mines, and ignore the tremendous hazmat problem that the expired batteries and solar panels will create.

The shortsightedness of you enviro-moonbats is the stuff of legend.

 

[elektra]

battery storage is not a source of power

Nuclear Power is the number one source of new power in the USA, last year, and now in 2024

 

[TNHarley]

Pretty easy to do when the taxpayers subsidize all the BS

 

[elektra]

Why is battery storage included in the generating numbers?

why, because generating numbers (which are self reported, not that which is generated) are woefully too low.

 

[Grumblenuts]

From Jim Hightower's Lowdown:

If you’re concerned about fossil fuels and climate change, consider an energy source that, according to its backers, will make everyday living “comfortable and healthier.”

What is this miraculous substance? Oil.

Huh? Yes, that filthy scourge of our planet and health, is being ballyhooed as our globe’s energy and environmental salvation! By whom? Of course: The American Petroleum Institute, the powerhouse lobbying front for ExxonMobil and other petro-profiteers. API recently bragged that it will pour tens of millions of dollars into a PR Blitz during this year’s presidential election to demonize clean energy sources and demand that government promote more fossil fuel production.

API’s campaign slogan is “Lights On Energy” – but the luminosity of its media message is mighty dim. Start with the fact that Big Oil has zero public credibility, having routinely gouged us on prices for years and knowingly lied to us for decades about not causing climate change.

Second, the demand by oil barons that government “quit intruding into the free market” by encouraging alternative energy is a whiney embarrassment. Hello – for more than a century, oil corporations have gorged on billions and billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts – and they are in line to keep getting $2.5 billion a year in corporate welfare for the next decade! (Didn’t their mommas ever teach them not to talk with their mouths full?)

Also pathetic is their partisan wail that President Biden is restricting their production and profits. Hello again: US oil production reached a record high last year, Big Oil’s profits are soaring, and they’re now jacking up our gas prices again. Meanwhile, 2023 was the hottest year our globe ever recorded.

Let’s reflect the heat back on these greedheads. For facts and action items, go to fossilfree4health.org.

 

[Libby von H]

People say "no future," "not economical."
But in fact Solar is the cheapest form of power generation in the right scenarios and had a stunning year in 2023,
and appears it will again in 2024.


FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of New U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024
U.S. planned utility-scale electric-generating capacity additions.







View attachment 903250
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2023


Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. This addition would be 55% more added capacity than the 40.4 GW added in 2023 (the most since 2003) and points to a continued rise in industry activity.
We expect solar to account for the largest share of new capacity in 2024, at 58%, followed by battery storage, at 23%.

Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.

More than half of the new utility-scale solar capacity is planned for three states: Texas (35%), California (10%), and Florida (6%). Outside of these states, the Gemini solar facility in Nevada plans to begin operating in 2024. With a planned photovoltaic capacity of 690 megawatts (MW) and battery storage of 380 MW, it is expected to be the largest solar project in the United States when fully operational.

Battery storage. We also expect battery storage to set a record for annual capacity additions in 2024."..."
[.......]

Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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It lost all that shine the other day though, for 2 reasons
1)

Texas residents have contamination concerns after solar panel's damaged​

4,000 acres of solar panels were destroyed in one Texas hail storm. Locals are now worried about groundwater poisoning.

2) People have discoved what Biden did behind their back
JANUARY 18 2024

LM proposes to open 22 million acres in Western states to solar development​

 

[Crick]

It lost all that shine the other day though, for 2 reasons
1)

Texas residents have contamination concerns after solar panel's damaged​

4,000 acres of solar panels were destroyed in one Texas hail storm. Locals are now worried about groundwater poisoning.

2) People have discoved what Biden did behind their back
JANUARY 18 2024

LM proposes to open 22 million acres in Western states to solar development​

People having fears does not mean those fears are justified. If you think so, where are the studies showing contamination?

What do you find alarming about the Biden announcement? The western states, per Wikipedia, make up an area of 1,120,673,920 acres. The announcement opens one acre out of 50 to potential solar farms. If that announcement also included what Wikipedia defines as the Mountain and Pacific states, it is one acre in every 103, open for potential solar farms.

 

[Libby von H]

This is the man (Biden ) that CBO has corrected many times already. IN some cases Biden's estimates were off by $1 TRILLION dollars.

Now this

CBO says debt will consume 166% of GDP in 30 years​

CBO says debt will consume 166% of GDP in 30 years

7 days ago








7 days ago

 

[Crick]

This is the man (Biden ) that CBO has corrected many times already. IN some cases Biden's estimates were off by $1 TRILLION dollars.

Now this

CBO says debt will consume 166% of GDP in 30 years​

CBO says debt will consume 166% of GDP in 30 years
7 days ago




7 days ago

Would that include the $8.4 trillion (and growing) added to the US debt by the laws that Donald Trump signed?

 

[Libby von H]

Would that include the $8.4 trillion (and growing) added to the US debt by the laws that Donald Trump signed?

I tricked you and it worked. So you don't care about the debt but only about Trump. Sometimes I"'m brilliant.
It worked. You assumed I am a Trumpie ...wrongo

 

[Crick]

I tricked you and it worked. So you don't care about the debt but only about Trump. Sometimes I"'m brilliant.
It worked. You assumed I am a Trumpie ...wrongo

You have not shown that I do not care about the debt. You have not even technically shown that I concluded you were a Trump supporter, but I did.

You have not explained why we should be concerned about damaged solar panels in Texas nor about Biden's declaration of public land being opened for solar development in the western states. Care to cover the items you brought up first or is this just a hit and run?

 

[abu afak]

It lost all that shine the other day though, for 2 reasons
1)

Texas residents have contamination concerns after solar panel's damaged​

4,000 acres of solar panels were destroyed in one Texas hail storm. Locals are now worried about groundwater poisoning.

2) People have discoved what Biden did behind their back
JANUARY 18 2024

LM proposes to open 22 million acres in Western states to solar development​

""Florida Power and Light Co.’s solar panel arrays that were located in Hurricane Ian’s path received little damage.

As reported by Politico, there were 38 FPL solar power farms in the path of Hurricane Ian and only 0.3% of the company’s 35 million solar panels were damaged by Hurricane Ian. The solar panels are secured to the ground with metal frames 5 feet above the ground that were assembled to withstand hurricane-force winds. According to Florida Power and Light’s Chair and CEO, the company is considered the largest solar electricity producer in the nation.""

Florida Power & Light's solar power arrays mostly survived Hurricane Ian

Florida Power and Light Co.’s solar panel arrays that were located in Hurricane Ian’s path received little damage.

www.wmnf.org

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[Libby von H]

You have not shown that I do not care about the debt. You have not even technically shown that I concluded you were a Trump supporter, but I did.

You have not explained why we should be concerned about damaged solar panels in Texas nor about Biden's declaration of public land being opened for solar development in the western states. Care to cover the items you brought up first or is this just a hit and run?

PURE BULLSHIT...and do you never read a paper

AccuWeather on Instagram: "Aerial video over a 4,000-acre solar farm in southern Texas shows widespread damage after hail pummeled the area.⁣ ⁣ #hail #texas #storm #solar #farm #weather #news #aerial #usnews"

2,311 likes, 155 comments - accuweatherMarch 28, 2024 on : "Aerial video over a 4,000-acre solar farm in southern Texas shows widespread damage after hail pummeled the area.⁣ ⁣ #hail #texas #st..."

www.instagram.com

 

[Crick]

PURE BULLSHIT...and do you never read a paper

AccuWeather on Instagram: "Aerial video over a 4,000-acre solar farm in southern Texas shows widespread damage after hail pummeled the area.⁣ ⁣ #hail #texas #storm #solar #farm #weather #news #aerial #usnews"

2,311 likes, 155 comments - accuweatherMarch 28, 2024 on : "Aerial video over a 4,000-acre solar farm in southern Texas shows widespread damage after hail pummeled the area.⁣ ⁣ #hail #texas #st..."

www.instagram.com

I get news from Google, CNN, AP, UPI, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSM and Reuters all via the web. I read no "papers".

So, why should we be alarmed at public lands being opened for solar development?

 

[Libby von H]

I get news from Google, CNN, AP, UPI, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSM and Reuters all via the web. I read no "papers".

So, why should we be alarmed at public lands being opened for solar development?

You say you get news from them....
First of all because they were not public, they were private and taken over. Guess that wasn't mentioned on

Google, CNN, AP, UPI, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSM and Reuters

And you are not aware of the 4000 acres destroyed at a shot in Texas and now leaching sht into the public water supply, Gues that wasn't mentioned on

Google, CNN, AP, UPI, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSM and Reuters

 

[Libby von H]

People say "no future," "not economical."
But in fact Solar is the cheapest form of power generation in the right scenarios and had a stunning year in 2023,
and appears it will again in 2024.


FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of New U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024
U.S. planned utility-scale electric-generating capacity additions.







View attachment 903250
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2023


Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. This addition would be 55% more added capacity than the 40.4 GW added in 2023 (the most since 2003) and points to a continued rise in industry activity.
We expect solar to account for the largest share of new capacity in 2024, at 58%, followed by battery storage, at 23%.

Solar. We expect a record addition of utility-scale solar in 2024 if the scheduled 36.4 GW are added to the grid. This growth would almost double last year’s 18.4 GW increase, which was itself a record for annual utility-scale solar installation in the United States. As the effects of supply chain challenges and trade restrictions ease, solar continues to outpace capacity additions from other generating resources.

More than half of the new utility-scale solar capacity is planned for three states: Texas (35%), California (10%), and Florida (6%). Outside of these states, the Gemini solar facility in Nevada plans to begin operating in 2024. With a planned photovoltaic capacity of 690 megawatts (MW) and battery storage of 380 MW, it is expected to be the largest solar project in the United States when fully operational.

Battery storage. We also expect battery storage to set a record for annual capacity additions in 2024."..."
[.......]

Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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As us easily verified this misguded push has hugely accelerated coal in the world.. HUGELY

INDIA

India’s Plans to Double Coal Production Ignore Climate Threat​

The south Asian giant is setting new targets to use more coal BLOOMBERG
CHINA
THis is in the "South China Morning Post"

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China doubles down on coal with rapid roll-out of new railway track to the world’s largest deposit​

• 257km line from Zhundong open pit to Urumqi will increase the mine’s transport capacity to more than 100 million tonnes a year

I LAUGH AT YOUR LACK OF AWARENESS