Developers plan to add 54.5 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the U.S. power grid in 2023, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. More than half of this capacity will be solar power (54%), followed by battery storage (17%).
Before 2020, the largest U.S. battery storage project was 40 MW. The 250 MW Gateway Energy Storage System in California, which began operating in 2020, marked the beginning of large-scale battery storage installation. At present, the 409 MW Manatee Energy Storage in Florida is the largest operating battery storage project in the country. Developers have scheduled more than 23 large-scale battery projects, ranging from 250 MW to 650 MW, to be deployed by 2025.
The alternative energy snowball is growing at an impressive rate. Battery storage in 2nd place is outstanding.
Solar vs wind vs tidal vs geothermal vs biomass vs fossil
When the Zentral Plannung’s Kommisar chooses winners and losers it never works out well for society.
Solar manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells announced Wednesday that it will invest more than $2.5 billion in building up the U.S. solar supply chain and creating 2,500 jobs in Georgia, in what the company and federal and state officials say is the largest such investment in U.S. history.
That bill includes incentives specifically for manufacturers. It includes a long-term extension of the investment tax credit, it includes credit adders for domestically produced products. Demand was already extremely high and there had already been supply chain issues that folks were really committed to solving. So the IRA puts fuel onto the fire and creates a really strong opportunity in the sector moving forward.
As I’m cruising around the rural areas of NC, popping up more and more, are acres and acres of solar panels on private property. Now I know these people did not have the money to invest in this. Hmmmmmmmmm…I wonder who paid for it? NOT!
Speaking of which, is Biden still begging communists and terrorists for more oil while these petroleum-based solar panels get littered all over nature?