US‘s wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It will last year?

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  • YungOnions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s a lag in the figures. We won’t find out total usage for 2024 until the beginning of 2025, but the data we do have shows that it will. It’s a weirdly worded title, I grant you.

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• MrJukes@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t wait to see how much we generated in 2023!

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• evenglow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But the US energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation. Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace, renewable production will have to continue to grow dramatically for a few years before it can simply cover the added demand.

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  • Tobberone@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which, in the end will make a “no renewables”-stance untenable, since renewables are the only way of growing the energy sector fast enough.

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