Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity

[HereWeGoAgain]

Some other leftwing idiot already posted this about a year ago.
And got smashed just like you are.

 

[Manonthestreet]

And?

You cannot run a grid off wind and solar. Period.

Meaning you need other sources to make electricity like NG, coal, and nuclear power plants that can operate ON DEMAND, unlike wind and solar.

Meaning rate-payers are being forced to pay higher and higher rates to support a dual and with batteries a triple tier system.

If the US is to eliminate planet-heating emissions by 2050 it will need to increase the capacity of its current 700,000 circuit-mile network of poles and wires by threefold, researchers have estimated, in order to electrify key components of everyday life and shift intermittent wind and solar energy to areas where the sun isn’t shining or wind isn’t blowing.

MSN

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This has no shot. We dont do anything quick anymore except light cash on fire

 

[healthmyths]

If the US is to eliminate planet-heating emissions by 2050 it will need to increase the capacity of its current 700,000 circuit-mile network of poles and wires by threefold, researchers have estimated, in order to electrify key components of everyday life and shift intermittent wind and solar energy to areas where the sun isn’t shining or wind isn’t blowing.

MSN

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This has no shot. We dont do anything quick anymore except light cash on fire

Thanks for the above. Now to add to costs to eliminate heat emissions.
additional grid costs will be to move 14.4 Trillion kWh.
Today it cost just for adding grid transmission 4.3 cents/kWh or in this case $619,000,000,000.
Major US utilities spent using 2020 dollars, and spending on delivery was 4.3 cents/kWh in 2020,

US power transmission, distribution costs seen outpacing electricity production costs

US utility transmission and distribution costs have been rising faster than electricity production costs over the past decade, with utility spending on power delivery 65% higher in 2020 than in 2010,

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So Biden guaranteeing riding fossil fuels means no more gasoline and all cars and what people seem to forget ALL TRUCKS will be EVs. Plus while destroying the fossil fuels industry, Biden will be a direct cause of permanent electric black outs around the USA.
FACT: If 80% of cars/trucks are EVs in the USA, EVs will require nearly 2 times the electricity currently generated in the USA. An EV car uses .25 kWh to travel 1 mile, A 2022 Tesla Model 3 RWD: 25 kWh/100 miles or Average Electric Car kWh Per Mile [Results From 231 EVs]
Trucks 1.89 kWh per Mile Per Truck Battery capacity and recharging needs for electric buses in city transit service (Journal Article) | OSTI.GOV
Average American car travels 14,263 miles per year...https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-driven-per-year/
Trucks average 100,000 miles per truck/ year source: How Many Miles Do Truckers Drive a Year?
Thus 650,963,320,000 total kWh by EV car drivers will be required for 2,603,853,280,000 miles
Thus 7,352,100,000,000 total KWh for EV trucks Economics and Industry Data
Total 8,003,063,320,000 kWh will be needed just for EV cars/trucks, so how will the current 11,070 power plants generate the additional 8 Trillion kWh?
This would require at the total 4.165 trillion kWh generated by the current 11,070 power plants per plant of 376,244,806 kWh construction of
21,270 NEW non fossil fuel (nuclear for example) power plants. Advanced nuclear reactors are estimated to cost $5,366 for every kilowatt of capacity.
That means to produce all the additional 8 trillion kWh in electricity for 80% of EV cars/trucks of 8,003,063,320,000 kWh X $5,366/kWh equals $42,944,437,775,120,000!

Let me repeat... 21,270 NEW nuclear power plants at cost per plant of $2,018,929,627,823 per plant based on each kWh generate cost $5,366/kWh.

So adding to the grid of $619 billion with the nuclear power plants means over $43 quadrillion !

 

[Rigby5]

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity​

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity
Utility-scale solar added in 2022 reached 9924MW and wind 8512MW, says FERC data analysis by SUN DAY

9 February 2023


It will become the majority within the next couple of decades.

WRONG!
If we hardly increased new electricity production at all, and only put up one solar panel, then the renewable would "account for 100% of new US capacity".

So that is a deliberately deceptive article.
The reality is renewables only account for 11% and it is falling as new natural gas and nuclear plants are planned.
Renewable is hitting a brick wall because they need expensive batteries for renewables.
And 43% of "renewables" include burning bio fuels.

 

[Rigby5]

There is no way the U.S is 74% renewable

The US clearly is no where near to 74% renewable.
Closer to 10%.
And falling since we are building more nuclear and natural gas plants.
All this is saying is that this year, 74% of the new power generation built this year was renewable.
That is because solar panels are quick to build, and actual power plants take about 3 years to build.

 

[Rigby5]

And if you are Texas, you can't run it off of NG and Coal either. But Tesla is beginning installing Battery Farms and many communities are installing solar and wind power farms as well.


Wrong. You need to store the juice that you make during the day and wind and use it in the off peak times.




The Tax payers aren't paying for the big commercial power plants, the people are paying for it. And that includes many non taxed businesses as well.

Wrong.
Storing electricity costs more than 10 times what it takes to generate it, and it is very inefficient.
Nuclear makes much more sense.

 

[Rigby5]

The logical solution is not to build wind or solar, which is hard to ramp up or down, but to instead switch to bio fuels that absorb more emissions while growing, than they release later when burned.
Of we can use hydrogen from nuclear plants.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

The logical solution is not to build wind or solar, which is hard to ramp up or down, but to instead switch to bio fuels that absorb more emissions while growing, than they release later when burned.
Of we can use hydrogen from nuclear plants.

It isnt about the energy that the Marxists/Demofascists want, it is the money they can steal from the US taxpayer funding those "Green New Deals". That is the real reason, because when people have their energy needs met, they are happy, and we all know a dumbass Marxist, but i repeat myself, can never be happy.

 

[elektra]

New capacity? When? I want to know how much new, "capacity" will be available next week at 1am.

0%

 

[Blues Man]

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity​

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity
Utility-scale solar added in 2022 reached 9924MW and wind 8512MW, says FERC data analysis by SUN DAY

9 February 2023


It will become the majority within the next couple of decades.

Capacity is NOT actual output.

You people always seem to leave out that a wind turbine at best only produces actual power at 30% of its rated capacity

 

[healthmyths]

Capacity is NOT actual output.

You people always seem to leave out that a wind turbine at best only produces actual power at 30% of its rated capacity

Remember this is what Biden said..

Of all the power generating plants see below:

 

[marvin martian]

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity​

Renewables account for 74% of new US capacity
Utility-scale solar added in 2022 reached 9924MW and wind 8512MW, says FERC data analysis by SUN DAY

9 February 2023


It will become the majority within the next couple of decades.

Texas is leading the way. I hope the blue shitholes run by people like you can catch up eventually (but I know you're too busy supporting criminals and illegals).

Texas leads the country in combined wind, solar renewable energy

There’s a certain pride exhibited by Texans when it comes to living here. For example, Lone Star State denizens can be proud of the fact that there were more jobs created in 2022 in Texas tha…

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[martybegan]

Capacity is NOT actual output.

You people always seem to leave out that a wind turbine at best only produces actual power at 30% of its rated capacity

They also leave out that government is actively discouraging certain forms of power generation (fossil fuels) while encouraging others, thus distorting any effect market conditions has on the capacity increase of renewables.