Quote “”Solar and wind accounted for almost 98% of new US electrical generating capacity added in Q1 2025, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Solar and wind also made up an impressive 100% of new capacity in March, and March was the 19th consecutive month in
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The US is down low on the list. One reason is because the US has 96 nuclear power plants that generate about 20% of the total power. But new wind and solar are being built in many states so the US will be higher in the list as years pass. Here is the source of
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Matt Ferrel describes how renewables – solar panels and wind turbine blades – and battery storage are being recycled.
Tom Scott tells us about how orkney Islands is far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to renewables. Also they are generating and storing hydrogen. https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/videos/1579577666016228/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Quote: “”DaveMary Myers From my state of Iowa these wind farms besides providing over 50 percent of Iowa’s power, they also send power over long transmission lines to other states such as Illinois and Wisconsin. They’ve built them and they work. If they weren’t profitable they wouldn’t be building them here. It has made for
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China is installing renewables and battery storage at a record pace. Sam Electric Viking tells us all about it – 10.7 min. video. China has installed more solar this year than the rest of the world combined.
That’s great news! One thing I just remembered is that the nuclear power plants (Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde) usually shut down for maintenance in the spring when demand is lowest. Otherwise they normally run 24/7 and there wouldn’t be any time during the day when it would be 100% renewables. https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
This is a very good graphic of the percent of total electricity renewables have grown to since 2000. Notice the bulging in April and September, and flattening during the summer. These are caused by the changes in demand during the hot weather. We need this to be 100% ASAP in order to prevent climate disaster!
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30 Gigawatts! They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes. This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time. It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels. The other 15GW would
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Sam the Electric Viking’s 12.5 min. YouTube video explains SMR and other nuclear power have had massive cost overruns. The costs of solar and wind are still falling. The cost of solar or wind is about doubled when battery storage is added. But it is still 3 to 5 times less than the costs of
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