For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year

[ScienceRocks]

For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year
by Alejandro Davila Fragoso Mar 2, 2016 3:00 pm
For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Locher

For the first time ever utility-scale solar projects will add more new capacity to the nation’s grid than any other industry this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday.

Natural gas and wind energy follow somewhat closely, according to the EIA’s monthly report, which notes that solar, gas and wind energy will make up 93 percent of all new energy. Solar projects will generate about 9.5 gigawatts of new energy. Natural gas, meanwhile, will add 8 gigawatts while wind is poised to create 6.8 gigawatts.

One gigawatt is enough energy to power about 700,000 average homes.

“I think it’s great, it’s evidence that the [solar] industry’s moved really into the mainstream,” said Justin Baca, vice president of markets and research at the Solar Energy Industries Association, in an interview with ThinkProgress. Seven years ago solar energy was proving that it was a real alternative to fossil fuels, he said, but now, “we’ve demonstrated that we are a real significant player in electricity markets.”

The EIA report comes less than a month after the Solar Foundation said the U.S. solar industry now employs slightly over 200,000 workers, representing a growth of 20 percent since November of 2014.

The new report further cements the scale of solar energy growth, since solar additions coming online this year are much higher than the 3.1 GW added to the grid in 2015. What’s more, this year’s growth would be more than what the industry achieved in the past three years combined.

Awesome news, Glad we're using our natural solar energy to power our nation!

 

[American Horse]

If this be so it will be because of applications in commercial and industrial buildings and plant.

 

[sealybobo]

For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year
by Alejandro Davila Fragoso Mar 2, 2016 3:00 pm
For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Locher

For the first time ever utility-scale solar projects will add more new capacity to the nation’s grid than any other industry this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday.

Natural gas and wind energy follow somewhat closely, according to the EIA’s monthly report, which notes that solar, gas and wind energy will make up 93 percent of all new energy. Solar projects will generate about 9.5 gigawatts of new energy. Natural gas, meanwhile, will add 8 gigawatts while wind is poised to create 6.8 gigawatts.

One gigawatt is enough energy to power about 700,000 average homes.

“I think it’s great, it’s evidence that the [solar] industry’s moved really into the mainstream,” said Justin Baca, vice president of markets and research at the Solar Energy Industries Association, in an interview with ThinkProgress. Seven years ago solar energy was proving that it was a real alternative to fossil fuels, he said, but now, “we’ve demonstrated that we are a real significant player in electricity markets.”

The EIA report comes less than a month after the Solar Foundation said the U.S. solar industry now employs slightly over 200,000 workers, representing a growth of 20 percent since November of 2014.

The new report further cements the scale of solar energy growth, since solar additions coming online this year are much higher than the 3.1 GW added to the grid in 2015. What’s more, this year’s growth would be more than what the industry achieved in the past three years combined.

Awesome news, Glad we're using our natural solar energy to power our nation!

That elektra chicks gonna shit herself

 

[Indeependent]

I installed Solar panels because PSEG has ZERO competition and their rates are INSANLEY high.

 

[sealybobo]

Think of all the assholes who faught wind and solar. Douchbaggery

 

[Old Rocks]

And that is what will drive the new boom in solar. Now the problem is the people, specifically the GOP, that would protect the utilities by outlawing home solar systems with storage capacity.

 

[elektra]

Ha, ha, ha, Mattpew has used a picture of Ivanpah? Ivanpah is a natural gas plant, not a solar plant. Are you guys so dumb you forget those long threads and posts pointing out that Ivanpah has failed as a Solar Plant so now they run it on natural gas?

SOLAR POWER: Desert plant has pollution problem

The Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert uses natural gas as a supplementary fuel. Data from the California Energy Commission show that the plant burned enough natural gas in 2014 – its first year of operation – to emit more than 46,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

That’s nearly twice the pollution threshold for power plants or factories in California to be required to participate in the state’s cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions.

The same amount of natural gas burned at a conventional power plant would have produced enough electricity to meet the annual needs of 17,000 California homes – or roughly a quarter of the Ivanpah plant’s total electricity projection for 2014.

Google-Owned Solar Company Requests $540 Million Bailout To Help Pay $1.6 Billion Loan

Google-Owned Solar Company Requests $540 Million Bailout To Help Pay $1.6 Billion Loan




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[elektra]

There are so many failed Solar Power Projects, it is about impossible for Mattpew to start a thread without using a Bankrupt, Failing Solar Project. Unbelievable!

 

[Muhammed]

For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year
by Alejandro Davila Fragoso Mar 2, 2016 3:00 pm
For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Locher

For the first time ever utility-scale solar projects will add more new capacity to the nation’s grid than any other industry this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday.

Natural gas and wind energy follow somewhat closely, according to the EIA’s monthly report, which notes that solar, gas and wind energy will make up 93 percent of all new energy. Solar projects will generate about 9.5 gigawatts of new energy. Natural gas, meanwhile, will add 8 gigawatts while wind is poised to create 6.8 gigawatts.

One gigawatt is enough energy to power about 700,000 average homes.

“I think it’s great, it’s evidence that the [solar] industry’s moved really into the mainstream,” said Justin Baca, vice president of markets and research at the Solar Energy Industries Association, in an interview with ThinkProgress. Seven years ago solar energy was proving that it was a real alternative to fossil fuels, he said, but now, “we’ve demonstrated that we are a real significant player in electricity markets.”

The EIA report comes less than a month after the Solar Foundation said the U.S. solar industry now employs slightly over 200,000 workers, representing a growth of 20 percent since November of 2014.

The new report further cements the scale of solar energy growth, since solar additions coming online this year are much higher than the 3.1 GW added to the grid in 2015. What’s more, this year’s growth would be more than what the industry achieved in the past three years combined.

Awesome news, Glad we're using our natural solar energy to power our nation!

Only an anti-science idiot would contend that solar energy is "new". New compared to what ?

You're an idiot.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You have to be skeptical of anything from the "If you like your plan" crowd, they will lie about anything and everything to get their way

 

[eagle1462010]

Let me see here............just want to see how it effects the electrical utility rates..............

hmmm...........

 

[flacaltenn]

For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year
by Alejandro Davila Fragoso Mar 2, 2016 3:00 pm
For The First Time, Solar Will Be The Top New Source Of Energy This Year

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Locher

For the first time ever utility-scale solar projects will add more new capacity to the nation’s grid than any other industry this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday.

Natural gas and wind energy follow somewhat closely, according to the EIA’s monthly report, which notes that solar, gas and wind energy will make up 93 percent of all new energy. Solar projects will generate about 9.5 gigawatts of new energy. Natural gas, meanwhile, will add 8 gigawatts while wind is poised to create 6.8 gigawatts.

One gigawatt is enough energy to power about 700,000 average homes.

“I think it’s great, it’s evidence that the [solar] industry’s moved really into the mainstream,” said Justin Baca, vice president of markets and research at the Solar Energy Industries Association, in an interview with ThinkProgress. Seven years ago solar energy was proving that it was a real alternative to fossil fuels, he said, but now, “we’ve demonstrated that we are a real significant player in electricity markets.”

The EIA report comes less than a month after the Solar Foundation said the U.S. solar industry now employs slightly over 200,000 workers, representing a growth of 20 percent since November of 2014.

The new report further cements the scale of solar energy growth, since solar additions coming online this year are much higher than the 3.1 GW added to the grid in 2015. What’s more, this year’s growth would be more than what the industry achieved in the past three years combined.

Awesome news, Glad we're using our natural solar energy to power our nation!

Hate to tell you the BAD news Matthew.. These stories are only possible because Grid DEMAND has been shrinking. Solar ain't adding any NEW capacity.. No one is building out NEW capacity in any important way.

But keep cheering for that 6 hour/day boondoggles stealing valuable funding from REAL alternative energy work. Money is no object. The Federal Govt is the bastion of science and industry ain't it??