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US renewables’ installed generating capacity beats coal

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Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.com Solar capacity additions hit the ground running in 2024, pushing renewables’ installed generating capacity past coal, according to new US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data. That’s more than the installed capacity of coal (207.15 of the total. of the total.

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Tesla Megapack battery turns on to replace Hawaii’s last coal plant

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A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. In early 2022, we reported that Tesla is deploying Megapacks at a new energy storage project that will replace Hawaii’s last remaining coal plant. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Get started here.

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Solar + wind now make up more than 20% of US electrical generating capacity

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Photo by Amol Mande on Pexels.com Solar and wind now make up more than 20% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The renewable energy mix – biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind – is now nearly 30% of total US electrical generating capacity.

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South Dakota’s largest solar farm just came online

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Photo: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables just brought South Dakota’s largest solar farm online in Pennington County. Wild Springs is a 128-megawatt (MW) solar farm in the Southwest Power Pool, which manages the central US’s electric grid and wholesale power market. Get started here.

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1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

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Photo: Tesla Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows. Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s.

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Renewables now make up 30% of US power capacity – FERC

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Photo: Openverse Renewables – solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower – are now 30% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to analysis of FERC’s mid-year data. That puts solar on track to become the US’s second-largest source of capacity – behind only natural gas – within three years. Solar accounted for 77.4%

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India inaugurates first solar-powered H2 fueling station; power-to-gas

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India’s first solar-powered hydrogen fueling station, supplied by Air Products was inaugurated recently at an event with chief guest Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, in conjunction with Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, Minister of New and Renewable Energy.

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