{"id":20078,"date":"2024-05-21T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20078"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T01:01:46","slug":"2024-05-21-how-renewables-could-beat-natural-gas-in-us-generating-capacity-within-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20078","title":{"rendered":"2024-05-21 How Renewables Could Beat Natural Gas In US Generating Capacity Within 3 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quote:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity.\u00a0\u00a0The latest capacity additions have brought solar\u2019s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., &gt;1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US\u2019s installed utility-scale generating capacity. With the inclusion of biomass (1.14%) and geothermal (0.33%), renewables now claim a 29.37% share of total US utility-scale generating capacity.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price of Solar Panels has dropped dramatically.&nbsp; This is a good article with lots of statistics from FERC &#8211; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fJTK3PmDr3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/05\/21\/renewables-natural-gas-generating-capacity-ferc\/\">How renewables could beat natural gas in US generating capacity within 3 years \u2013 in numbers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How renewables could beat natural gas in US generating capacity within 3 years \u2013 in numbers&#8221; &#8212; Electrek\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/05\/21\/renewables-natural-gas-generating-capacity-ferc\/embed\/#?secret=VusSs7omFL#?secret=fJTK3PmDr3\" data-secret=\"fJTK3PmDr3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity.\u00a0\u00a0The latest capacity additions have brought solar\u2019s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., &gt;1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20078\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,950,2647,162,722,143,34,543,348,542],"tags":[3500,1793,369],"class_list":["post-20078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical-system","category-generation","category-generation-electrical-system","category-government-agencies","category-newsmedia","category-photovoltaic-and-solar-cells-or-panels","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-websites","category-wind","tag-generating-capacity","tag-natural-gas","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20080,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078\/revisions\/20080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}