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U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after (pv-magazine-usa.com)
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Based on current deployment rates, it is likely that solar will surpass wind as the third-largest source of electricity. And solar may soon topple coal in the number two spot.

Looking ahead, through July 2028, FERC expects no new coal capacity to come online based on its “high probability additions” forecast. Meanwhile 63 coal plants are expected to be retired, subtracting 25 GW from the 198 GW total, and landing at about 173 GW of coal capacity by 2028. Meanwhile, FERC forecasts 92.6 GW of “high probability additions” solar will come online through July 2028.

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[–] Fairgreen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Batteries

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (13 children)

What batteries exactly? The capacity required is huge.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They can be distributed though. I Install solar, most of the systems we install with batteries end up selling back a significant portion of their charge to the grid (iirc our system wide average is 40% nightly resale)

So not only is each house with a battery not using grid power at night, its powering almost half of an equivalently sized house.

Granted, batteries are still on the expensive side, so these systems aren't coming enough ( I think we're at ~10% of our systems have a battery)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A competent government that believes in basic science, would give tax breaks to encourage this.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, but even then we don't have a solution today. It's all in the fuzzy future.

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