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US solar and wind growth defies expectations – a decade in numbers

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Photo: Primergy The latest US EIA and FERC data reflect a decade of explosive solar and wind growth – here’s how it breaks down. biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind) now totals 389 gigawatts (GW). Most of the growth is because of new solar and wind capacity. GW vs. wind: 98.86

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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). Solar installation is booming in 2024. For seven of those nine months, wind was No 2.

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EGEB: No. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years. West Virginia’s electric car drivers made a film about why they chose to embrace electric. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022 appeared first on Electrek.

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Global wind turbine order intake reached new highs in H1 2024

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Photo: DongFang Electric Corporation Global wind turbine order intake reached new highs in H1 2024, with 91.2 Globally, investment by wind energy developers in H1 2024 totaled $42 billion, a 3% increase year-over-year, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. In total, order intake outside of China decreased 16% (-2.3

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Massachusetts & Rhode Island make history with largest offshore wind projects yet

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Photo: Worldview Films via Vineyard Wind 1 Massachusetts and Rhode Island have selected 2,878 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power in the region’s first-ever coordinated procurement. This wind power will bring clean energy to over 1.4 The economic ripple effects of these projects will be massive.

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Vineyard Wind 1 just became the US’s largest operating offshore wind farm

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Photo: Avangrid Five more wind turbines just came online at Vineyard Wind 1, making it the largest operating offshore wind farm in the US. New York’s South Fork Wind , the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm, is 132 MW.) Once completed, the project will consist of 62 wind turbines.

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In a ‘monumental shift’, EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend

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Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. What’s more, for the first time, wind power, which grew by 18%, surpassed gas, which only accounted for 17% of Europe’s electricity. compared to 2022.

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