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86% of New US Electric Utility Generation Capacity Coming from Non-Fossil Fuels in 2023
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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I think this looks better than it is. Sure, new energy generation coming from green sources is good but proportionally of existing sources it’s very small.
Total energy generated in US is 4 trillion KWh
56 billion KWh out of 4000 billion kWh is small.
You can easily check the percentage of electricity generated by non-fossil fuel sources. By that metric Wind and Solar already surpassed coal in 2022. Ofcourse, total energy also includes transportation and other sectors so that is a different metric. In that case, non-fossil fuel energy accounted for 21% of all energy consumed in the US in 2022.
Even worse, I'd image those numbers are installed capacity, not utilised.