Renewables made up 92% of new generating capacity in the U.S. in the first half of 2021

[sparky]

Moreover something the customers cannot think about PAYING for. Especially when they demand Overhead areas be converted to Underground areas; then balk at the cost.

They've no idea

Further, those countries that DO implement and plan may only be as large as a few of our states area wise

~S~

 

[abu afak]

ENERGY
13 October 2020 8:37

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA​

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.

www.carbonbrief.org

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[abu afak]

Renewables made up 92% of new generating capacity in the U.S. in the first half of 2021​

[...]"...data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)...

FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data through June 30, 2021) reveals that renewable energy sources accounted for 91.6% – or 10,940 megawatts (MW) – of the 11,940 MW of new capacity added during the first six months of the year. Wind led the capacity additions with 5,617 MW, followed closely by solar (5,279 MW). Further, wind and solar were the only sources of new capacity additions in June 2021.

Renewables now provide more than a quarter (25.1%) of total U.S. available installed generating capacity. A year ago, their share was only 23.0%. Wind is now more than a tenth (10.4%) of the nation’s generating capacity while utility-scale solar is nearly five percent (4.9%) … and that does not include distributed (e.g., rooftop) solar.

Moreover, FERC data suggest that renewables’ share of generating capacity is on track to increase significantly over the next three years (i.e., by June 2024). “High probability” generation capacity additions for wind, minus anticipated retirements, reflect a projected net increase of 21,129 MW while solar is foreseen growing by 44,385 MW. By comparison, net growth for natural gas will be only 13,241 MW. Thus, wind and solar combined are forecast to provide roughly five times more new net generating capacity than natural gas over the next three years.

If these numbers materialize, by June 2024, renewable energy generating capacity should account for almost 30 percent (29.4%) of the nation’s total available installed generating capacity.
.......

Renewables made up 92% of new generating capacity in the U.S. in the first half of 2021

Renewable energy sources dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions in the first half of 2021.

www.renewableenergyworld.com

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and yet skookerasbil says " No one cares."

Clearly everyone who knows and can 'Count' does care.
Money talks, BS (and skooker) walks.

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[Old Rocks]

and yet skookerasbil says " No one cares."

Clearly everyone who knows and can 'Count' does care.
Money talks, BS (and skooker) walks.

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Certainly the ones that count the most do care, and that is the bean counters at the utilities. And then there are the homeowners that are not only saving money on their electricity, but actually making money on their solar investment. And as VPP's and Agrivoltaics become more common, we are going to see a lot of those.

 

[skookerasbil]

and yet skookerasbil says " No one cares."

Clearly everyone who knows and can 'Count' does care.
Money talks, BS (and skooker) walks.

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But nobody is caring. If people were caring, waaaay more solar/ wind would be providing electricity for the grid. It's less than 10%...that's laughable.

So the energy policy makers obviously not caring which means the public is not caring. This has been going on for many years btw.

Growth statistics are ghey...and fake. Serious people not fooled.

If a flat chested chick increases her boobs 100% that's considerable growth. But only the stOOpids are impressed. To most, she's still decidedly flat chested. dOy

Fakery is ghey

You see Abu.... you're a clever guy...but only to the nit wits

 

[Old Rocks]

But nobody is caring. If people were caring, waaaay more solar/ wind would be providing electricity for the grid. It's less than 10%...that's laughable.

So the energy policy makers obviously not caring which means the public is not caring. This has been going on for many years btw.

Growth statistics are ghey...and fake. Serious people not fooled.

If a flat chested chick increases her boobs 100% that's considerable growth. But only the stOOpids are impressed. To most, she's still decidedly flat chested. dOy

Fakery is ghey

You see Abu.... you're a clever guy...but only to the nit wits

"The U.S. is currently on track to install 27 GW of new wind generation and 44 GW of solar in 2022, according to a 2022 Electric, Natural Gas and Water Utilities Outlook Report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Next year's solar installations will double the record capacity installed in 2021, according to S&P.Nov 15, 2021"

S&P projects record installation of 71 GW of US wind and solar in 2022 amid rising headwinds

According to the report, 8 GW of battery storage will be deployed in 2022, six times higher than the record set in 2020.

www.utilitydive.com

Add in the ever increasing amount of solar by homeowners and farmers, and that may well be exceeded. Also, as the VPP's gain momentum, many businesses with parking lot and roof area will be adding solar to reduce their electricity bill and even make a profit. Build the grid out to the areas with high wind and solar potential and the utilities will build the solar and wind farms. At this rate, it will not take long before solar and wind does to natural gas and nuclear what they have already done to coal. And more and more grid scale storage methods are coming online, so there is a suitable method for any area.

I realize that most here are too dumb to realize the potential of doubling on a yearly basis. Doesn't matter as people like Skook are of no importance in what the future will bring.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

"The U.S. is currently on track to install 27 GW of new wind generation and 44 GW of solar in 2022, according to a 2022 Electric, Natural Gas and Water Utilities Outlook Report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Next year's solar installations will double the record capacity installed in 2021, according to S&P.Nov 15, 2021"

That's great!!

Is this going to make our power as cheap as Germany's?

 

[Old Rocks]

That's great!!

Is this going to make our power as cheap as Germany's?

Playing stupid again?

Levelized Cost of Energy+

Levelized Cost of Energy+

www.lazard.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Playing stupid again?

View attachment 582357

Levelized Cost of Energy+

Levelized Cost of Energy+

www.lazard.com

Is it stupid that Germany pays triple what we do?

 

[skookerasbil]

More Proof the skeptics are WINNING!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Playing stupid again?

View attachment 582357

Levelized Cost of Energy+

Levelized Cost of Energy+

www.lazard.com

But that's a fake chart....even suggests that in the type on the top.

Guess you missed that!

"under certain circumstances"

fake

 

[abu afak]

and yet skookerasbil says " No one cares."

Clearly everyone who knows and can 'Count' does care.
Money talks, BS (and skooker) walks.

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[Toddsterpatriot]

and yet skookerasbil says " No one cares."

Clearly everyone who knows and can 'Count' does care.
Money talks, BS (and skooker) walks.

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But the AP survey also showed that Americans don’t want to pay very much to fight climate change. A $1 per month fee was favored by 57 percent of those surveyed. However, if the monthly charge increased to $10 a month, just 28 percent would be supportive, while 68 percent would be opposed.

More Americans believe in global warming — but they won’t pay much to fix it

Most Americans are unwilling to pay $10 a month to fight climate change, a survey found.

www.nbcnews.com

LOL!

 

[abu afak]

But the AP survey also showed that Americans don’t want to pay very much to fight climate change. A $1 per month fee was favored by 57 percent of those surveyed. However, if the monthly charge increased to $10 a month, just 28 percent would be supportive, while 68 percent would be opposed.

More Americans believe in global warming — but they won’t pay much to fix it

Most Americans are unwilling to pay $10 a month to fight climate change, a survey found.

www.nbcnews.com

LOL!

LOL Dopey.
Try at app 3 YEARS later article, not Jan, 2019.
LOL
skookerasbil - "no one cares" with the phony weather "skeptics are winning" FALLACY/FRAUD -0-IQ thread.
You guys all support him right?
No criticism for this raging idiot who thinks it's cooling?

Now I remember why I had Toadster on Ignore for several Years (besides being a one line harassment troll)

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?​

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.​

Discover.com
Dec 21, 2021

""From brutal heat in North America and Siberia to devastating flooding in China and Europe, 2021 delivered worsening climate extremes of the kind long predicted by scientists.
Streetcar cables melted in Portland. A raging river swept away entire homes in Germany’s lush Ahr Valley wine region. And wildfires have set records across the globe in the past two years.

For many people, recent disasters have transformed human-caused climate change from a theoretical, far-off risk to an undeniable reality. And this summer, the United Nations dropped a landmark climate report, emphasizing that avoiding even worse impacts will require deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas pollution. But does that mean 2021 will be remembered as the year denial of climate change all but died?

At least one renowned environmental scientist believes so. “I think you have seen a seismic shift,” says Jonathon Foley, executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that advances climate solutions. “Most of the conversation now is really more about what we should do, not denying whether or not climate change is happening.”
[.....]

Elevated Concern​

Surveys show Rising Alarm about climate change.
In a 2021 poll by George Mason and Yale universities, 70% of Americans surveyed said they were worried about global warming. A similar poll also showed growing bipartisan support for climate action, with 6 in 10 voters voicing support for ambitious climate and clean energy infrastructure legislation.

“I do think our country and world have changed in important ways,” says Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. “We’re now in an inevitable transition to an economy in which we are no longer emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

The shift may not be surprising, given the clear rise in weather and climate extremes documented by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
In 2021, we saw heat waves, like the shattering of high temperature records in June on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada.
July brought torrential rains in Western Europe. Deluges followed in China’s Henan province, where half its average annual precipitation fell in just six hours, triggering flooding that killed more than 300 people.
And the western U.S. has seen a profound increase in wildfire activity, a point driven home by multiple 2021 megafires of 100,000 acres and greater...."

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.

www.discovermagazine.com

EDIT
Note below, I always leaving baying at the moon: trying to multi-post their way out.
Toadster, like Ding, is just a heel-nipping, last-wording Troll.
(I took him off Ignore just to use his weak posts to Bump my threads so I can respond/rebroadcast.)

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[Toddsterpatriot]

LOL
Try at app[ 3 YEARS later article, not 2019.
LOL
Now I know why I had you on Ignore for several Years (besides being a one line harassment troll)

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?​

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.​

Discover.com
Dec 21, 2021

""From brutal heat in North America and Siberia to devastating flooding in China and Europe, 2021 delivered worsening climate extremes of the kind long predicted by scientists.
Streetcar cables melted in Portland. A raging river swept away entire homes in Germany’s lush Ahr Valley wine region. And wildfires have set records across the globe in the past two years.

For many people, recent disasters have transformed human-caused climate change from a theoretical, far-off risk to an undeniable reality. And this summer, the United Nations dropped a landmark climate report, emphasizing that avoiding even worse impacts will require deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas pollution. But does that mean 2021 will be remembered as the year denial of climate change all but died?

At least one renowned environmental scientist believes so. “I think you have seen a seismic shift,” says Jonathon Foley, executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that advances climate solutions. “Most of the conversation now is really more about what we should do, not denying whether or not climate change is happening.”
[.....]

Elevated Concern​

Surveys show rising alarm about climate change. In a 2021 poll by George Mason and Yale universities, 70% of Americans surveyed said they were worried about global warming. A similar poll also showed growing bipartisan support for climate action, with 6 in 10 voters voicing support for ambitious climate and clean energy infrastructure legislation.

“I do think our country and world have changed in important ways,” says Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. “We’re now in an inevitable transition to an economy in which we are no longer emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

The shift may not be surprising, given the clear rise in weather and climate extremes documented by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
In 2021, we saw heat waves, like the shattering of high temperature records in June on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada.
July brought torrential rains in Western Europe. Deluges followed in China’s Henan province, where half its average annual precipitation fell in just six hours, triggering flooding that killed more than 300 people.
And the western U.S. has seen a profound increase in wildfire activity, a point driven home by multiple 2021 megafires of 100,000 acres and greater...."

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.

www.discovermagazine.com

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Try at app[ 3 YEARS later article, not 2019.
LOL

You think in the last 3 years, people have decided they'd waste...err...invest more money to stop global warming?

Hilarious!!!

Can't wait to see your evidence.

The survey, conducted last November and December among 1,114 American adults, showed the most dramatic shifts in public sentiment about global warming since Yale and George Mason began sampling opinion on the topic more than a decade ago. It found that 73 percent of Americans now believe global warming is happening, an increase of 10 percentage points from March 2015.

Weird, my article said 73 percent......

Surveys show rising alarm about climate change. In a 2021 poll by George Mason and Yale universities, 70% of Americans surveyed said they were worried about global warming.

Your article said 70%......your side is losing ground. LOL!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

LOL Dopey.
Try at app 3 YEARS later article, not Jan, 2019.
LOL
skookerasbil - "no one cares" with the phony weather "skeptics are winning" FALLACY/FRAUD -0-IQ thread.
You guys all support him right?
No criticism for this raging idiot who thinks it's cooling?

Now I remember why I had Toadster on Ignore for several Years (besides being a one line harassment troll)

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?​

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.​

Discover.com
Dec 21, 2021

""From brutal heat in North America and Siberia to devastating flooding in China and Europe, 2021 delivered worsening climate extremes of the kind long predicted by scientists.
Streetcar cables melted in Portland. A raging river swept away entire homes in Germany’s lush Ahr Valley wine region. And wildfires have set records across the globe in the past two years.

For many people, recent disasters have transformed human-caused climate change from a theoretical, far-off risk to an undeniable reality. And this summer, the United Nations dropped a landmark climate report, emphasizing that avoiding even worse impacts will require deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas pollution. But does that mean 2021 will be remembered as the year denial of climate change all but died?

At least one renowned environmental scientist believes so. “I think you have seen a seismic shift,” says Jonathon Foley, executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that advances climate solutions. “Most of the conversation now is really more about what we should do, not denying whether or not climate change is happening.”
[.....]

Elevated Concern​

Surveys show Rising Alarm about climate change.
In a 2021 poll by George Mason and Yale universities, 70% of Americans surveyed said they were worried about global warming. A similar poll also showed growing bipartisan support for climate action, with 6 in 10 voters voicing support for ambitious climate and clean energy infrastructure legislation.

“I do think our country and world have changed in important ways,” says Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. “We’re now in an inevitable transition to an economy in which we are no longer emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

The shift may not be surprising, given the clear rise in weather and climate extremes documented by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
In 2021, we saw heat waves, like the shattering of high temperature records in June on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada.
July brought torrential rains in Western Europe. Deluges followed in China’s Henan province, where half its average annual precipitation fell in just six hours, triggering flooding that killed more than 300 people.
And the western U.S. has seen a profound increase in wildfire activity, a point driven home by multiple 2021 megafires of 100,000 acres and greater...."

Did 2021 Deal a Fatal Blow to Climate-Change Denial?

Data and extreme weather events are making it harder than ever to ignore our warming world. But climate change denial has also taken on a new form.

www.discovermagazine.com

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My 3 year old article.....

But the AP survey also showed that Americans don’t want to pay very much to fight climate change. A $1 per month fee was favored by 57 percent of those surveyed. However, if the monthly charge increased to $10 a month, just 28 percent would be supportive, while 68 percent would be opposed.

Last October.....

Fifty-two percent said they would support a $1 a month carbon fee on their energy bill to fight climate change, but support dwindles as the fee increases.

Majority in US concerned about climate: AP-NORC/EPIC poll | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increase from just a few years ago.

apnews.com

Losing ground. LOL!

 

[abu afak]

The Green is Going Green.
Money talks, BS Walks

Investors all want in.
(and Tesla worth more multiples of GM an Ford combined)

More Money Is Flowing Into Green Energy Than Ever Before. Hereâs Why.

Investors have been pouring more money than ever into renewable energies such as solar and wind. WSJ looks at how the pandemic, lower energy costs and global politics have driven the rally–and whether it can last.

www.wsj.com

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[Viacheslav]

Doesn't matter as people like Skook are of no importance in what the future will bring.

With current technology, we still need at least nuclear power.

 

[abu afak]

With current technology, we still need at least nuclear power.

Bad Premise. Getting to high 60-80% de-Carb is very possible. (and then adding/leaving some carbon and sequestration)
If one has to make the "100%" strawman it's indeed easy to shoot down.
We're a long way from worrying about the non-fossil needed portion.

A good article on this:

Is 100% renewable energy realistic? Here’s what we know.​

Reasons for skepticism, reasons for optimism, and some tentative conclusions.

www.vox.com

"...Two papers circulated widely among energy nerds in 2017 cast a skeptical eye on the goal of 100% renewables.

One was a literature review on the subject, self-published by the Energy Innovation Reform Project (EIRP), authored by Jesse Jenkins and Samuel Thernstrom. It looked at a range of studies on deep decarbonization in the electricity sector and tried to extract some lessons.

The other was a paper in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews that boasted “a comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems.” It was by B.P. Heard, B.W. Brook, T.M.L. Wigley, and C.J.A. Bradshaw, who, it should be noted, are advocates for nuclear power.

We’ll take them one at a time.

Most current models find that deep decarbonization is cheaper with dispatchable power plants​

Jenkins and Thernstrom rounded up 30 studies on deep decarbonization, all published since 2014, when the most recent comprehensive report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The studies focused on decarbonizing different areas of different sizes, from regional to global, and used different methods, so there is not an easy apples-to-apples comparison across them, but there were some common themes.

To cut to the chase: The models that optimize for the lowest-cost path to zero carbon electricity — and do not rule out nuclear and CCS a priori — generally find that it is cheaper to get there with than without them.

Today’s models, at least, appear to agree that “a diversified mix of low-CO2 generation resources” add up to a more cost-effective path to deep decarbonization than 100% renewables. This is particularly true above 60% or 80% decarbonization, when the costs of the renewables-only option rise sharply.

Again, it’s all about balancing out VRE. The easiest way to do that is with fast, flexible natural gas plants, but you can’t get past around 60% decarbonization with a large fleet of gas plants running. Getting to 80% or beyond means closing or idling lots of those plants. So you need other balancing options.

One is to...."​

 

[abu afak]

Mountaintop mining for coal;

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Tar sands mining for oil'

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Pretty disturbing photos.
Thanks.

Tar Sands is not really 'oil.'
They cut down forest to strip mine a seam of what is really Asphalt.
Then need 3 barrels of Clean Water for every barrel of that crap to make it flow through a pipeline
Then dump the polluted water.

Refining it also produces more toxic byproducts.

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