Solar — 3% of US Electricity in 2020, 5% Next Year, & 20% in 2050?
Solar power is growing fast — how far can we take it in the coming decades?
US Energy Information Administration
Renewables = 21.6% of US Electricity in 1st Quarter, 25.5% in March
Renewable energy’s contribution to United States electricity supply has been growing for years. In just the past three years, renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation in the first quarter of the year has grown by more than three percentage points, from 18.4% in Q1 2019 to 21.6% in Q1 … [continued]
Solar & Wind Provided 11% of US Electricity in First 2 Months of 2021
Following our US Power Capacity Report for the first two months of 2020, which showed that 99.7% of new US power capacity came from solar and wind, we’ve got a US Electricity Generation Report that is much less uplifting. Aside from the fact that 11% is a lot lower than … [continued]
Solar, Wind, Coal, Nuclear, & Nat Gas US Electricity Generation Changes 2010–2020
How has US electricity generation from solar power, wind power, coal power, natural gas, and nuclear shifted in the past 11 years? Let me show you.
Renewables = 20.6% of US Electricity in 2020
2020 US electricity generation data are in from the US Energy Information Administration. Crunching the numbers, renewable energy accounted for 20.6% of US electricity generation last year. That was led by wind power, which accounted for 8.3% of US electricity generation, followed by hydropower at 7.2% and solar power at … [continued]
Revenue-to-Cost Ratios for Solar PV & Natural Gas — U.S. EIA Forecast by Region &…
Editor’s note: Note that this evaluation does not take social, environmental, or public health costs into account, and natural gas comes with high social, environmental, or public health costs. Those costs, for the most part, are not priced into power plant costs in the United States. A supplemental report to … [continued]
US Coal Capacity Factor Dropped From 67.1% In 2010 To 47.5% In 2019
After publishing some recent reports on US power capacity additions and forecasts, one of our readers pushed for more attention on how capacity factors are changing as well as capacity. For those of you new to the topic, here’s a brief definition of capacity factor from the US Energy Information … [continued]
Nuclear & Coal Will Account for Majority of U.S. Generating Capacity Retirements in 2021
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest inventory of electric generators, 9.1 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2021. Nuclear generating capacity will account for the largest share of total capacity retirements (56%), followed by coal (30%).
U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Surpasses Coal For 1st Time In Over 130 Years
In 2019, U.S. annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time since before 1885, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. This outcome mainly reflects the continued decline in the amount of coal used for electricity generation over the past decade as well as growth in renewable energy, mostly from wind and solar.
US Non-Hydro Renewables Grow 6.2%, Provide 11.4% Of US Electricity
A new analysis of recently released data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) by the SUN DAY Campaign has highlighted the fact that renewable energy sources accounted for 18.49% of US electrical generation during the first eight months of 2019 — up from 17.95% a year earlier.
