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The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of production capacity this year, up 53% on new capacity in 2022 and helped by investment incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, a report published on Thursday showed.

32 GW is a lot. The average thermal coal generating station in the US is 1GW and these stations have an average capacity of 50%. That means that this colar prodution capacity enables us to displace 64 coal stations during the daytime if consumption does not grow.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

eh... consumption will always grow, but probably half of those coal stations will close - presumably the owner/operators will be able to find new sources of income

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Energy consumption per capital was flat from 1970 to 2000, and has decreased from then.

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T01.07#/?f=M&start=200001

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy to look at that CO2 per capita chart and see that we're lower now than any time since the 40s at least.

About 25% down from 2008.

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