The Biden administration is set to beat its 25 GW by 2025 onshore clean energy goal - and it

[Mr. Sparkle]

– and it needs to tell everyone

The Biden administration set a goal of permitting 25 gigawatts (GW) of solar, onshore wind, and geothermal energy on public lands by 2025. It’s well on its way to exceeding that goal. 25 GW by 2025 clean energy – and then some. In January 2022, the White House reported that since President Joe Biden took office, his administration had approved 18 onshore projects totaling 4.175 GW (including eight located on public lands and 10 with interconnection lines on public lands) and initiated processing of another 54 priority projects with the potential to add at least 27.5 GW of clean energy.

In a report released yesterday that was submitted to Congress, the US Department of the Interior forecasts that it’s now on track to approve 48 wind, solar, and geothermal energy projects with the capacity to produce around 31.827 GW of electricity by the end of the fiscal 2025 budget cycle. Solar leads with 29.6 GW of that electricity. That’s enough electricity to power around 9.5 million households.

The report estimates that the Bureau of Land Management will approve projects capable of producing 11,409 MW of electricity by the end of 2023. That amount alone would nearly double the 12,000 MW [12 GW] of electricity from the 35 solar, 36 wind, and 48 geothermal power projects that have already been approved on federal lands to date.

https://electrek.co/2022/04/21/the-biden-administration-is-set-to-beat-its-25-gw-by-2025-onshore-clean-energy-goal-and-it-needs-to-tell-everyone/

[hunter]

1. That sucks. Look at that photo. It's obscene.

"We had to destroy the natural environment in order to save it!"



I don't hate solar. It doesn't bother me at all when it's installed over land that's already been developed.

Many of my neighbors have solar panels on their rooftops. Our schools have solar panels over their parking lots and outdoor lunch areas. I can park under solar panels when I do my grocery shopping. (On hot days it's nice to park in the shade.) Our local big box stores have solar panels on their roofs and electric car charging stations in their parking lots. Even better, the electricity is used where it is produced.

There's no good reason to install solar panels on undeveloped land. I oppose all these projects.

Leave our deserts alone!

[Emile]

2. I prefer solar panels over mountain top removal.

You can't replace a mountain, but solar panels and wind mills can be torn down and with no harm.

[hunter]

4. Deserts are some of the most fragile natural environments there are.

They cannot be restored.

These projects are vile.

[Emile]

6. I would be more worried about farmers growing in the desert and

new houses being built!

[Eko]

7. Quite a few of them can be restored.

Just look here.

[Emile]

8. Population growth is more damaging than solar panels.

[Demovictory9]

3. Kick

[rockfordfile]

5. good