Proposed wind, solar in US by 2020 total 116 GW

[NeoGreen]

https://renewablesnow.com/news/proposed-wind-solar-in-us-by-2020-total-116-gw-596907/

Proposed wind, solar in US by 2020 total 116 GW
January 8 (Renewables Now)

A net 115,984 MW of utility-scale wind and solar capacity is proposed to be added in the US by December 2020, matching the 115,520 MW of capacity currently installed.

The data is from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest Energy Infrastructure Update last week and suggests that US wind and solar capacity could double in the next three years, non-profit SUN DAY Campaign highlighted in a released on Friday.

The proposed additions for wind are 72,526 MW, and for solar - 43,528 MW, with proposed retirements of 68 MW and 2 MW, respectively.

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Should these figures come true, renewables' share of US installed generating capacity would increase to 26.57% from 19.91% now, the organisation says.

Ken Bossong, executive director of the SUN DAY Campaign, said that the FERC data should not be interpreted as a forecast but rather as a confirmation of recent trends of "rapid growth by solar, wind, and natural gas accompanied by more modest gains by hydropower, geothermal, and biomass while coal and nuclear power experience sharp declines."

FERC is to consider Energy Secretary Rick Perry's proposal to subsidise coal and nuclear generation on January 10.

[NNadir]

1. Imagine destroying all that land for so little result.

The capacity utilization of a solar plant in most places in the US is on the order of 10%, so when you strip away the fraudulent of representing peak capacity as compared to actual energy, the entire solar garbage here is the equivalent of a little more than 4 gas plants at 1000 MWe.

Of course you still need the gas plants to work, because it's widely known on most of the planet, maybe not at Cleantechna that the sun goes down at night; it snows; and there are clouds, dust deposits etc.

Typically this obvious to fail approach will have no effect whatsoever on the ever increasing rate of carbon dioxide accumulations.

It's just more delusional "percent talk."