This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it's a fucking absurd outrage that it's anything less than 100.0%.
Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!
What a fucking moron a politician has to be to allow addition of new fossil fueled energy sources, along with everyone who is supposed to supervise that process.
It’s just another sign of the sheer insanity this world is infected with.
How are batteries generating electricity?
Single use precharged ones do. Maybe they burned through their stock of batteries for their tv remotes?
Yeah I saw that and laughed.
I think this looks better than it is. Sure, new energy generation coming from green sources is good but proportionally of existing sources it’s very small.
Total energy generated in US is 4 trillion KWh
56 billion KWh out of 4000 billion kWh is small.
You can easily check the percentage of electricity generated by non-fossil fuel sources. By that metric Wind and Solar already surpassed coal in 2022. Ofcourse, total energy also includes transportation and other sectors so that is a different metric. In that case, non-fossil fuel energy accounted for 21% of all energy consumed in the US in 2022.
Even worse, I'd image those numbers are installed capacity, not utilised.
But still 18% Non-Renewable...
The only thing that bothered me is that there is still a net increase in electricity produced using gas :/
Not to be confused with about a third of all generation.
The APPA report there uses "nameplate capacity", which they define as "capacity labeled as operating and restarted as well as capacity that is on standby and mothballed", which means plants sitting unused are still counted. The EIA gives actual generation:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
The numbers are in the same ballpark, but not the same. Percentage-wise, solar and nuclear are quite a bit higher with EIA's numbers, while wind and natural gas are a bit lower.
I would say that anyone with basic reading comprehension understands the title of the news piece.
I would say if it were the case we would not have clickbaity titles.
Finally, a good step from US.
