Thursday, January 13, 2022

“You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton

U.S. to shutter 14.9 GW of coal-fired & add 46.1 GW of utility scale solar PV in 2022


Coal will account for 85% of U.S. electric generating capacity retirements in 2022

Operators have scheduled 14.9 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity to retire in the United States during 2022, according to our latest inventory of electric generators. The majority of the scheduled retirements are coal-fired power plants (85%), followed by natural gas (8%) and nuclear (5%).

JANUARY 10, 2022

Solar power will account for nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capacity in 2022

...To make matters worse, solar power tends to deliver its maximum output when demand is at its lowest. ...

...The moral to the story…


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