The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of production capacity this year, up 53% on new capacity in 2022 and helped by investment incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, a report published on Thursday showed.

32 GW is a lot. The average thermal coal generating station in the US is 1GW and these stations have an average capacity of 50%. That means that this colar prodution capacity enables us to displace 64 coal stations during the daytime if consumption does not grow.

  • p1mrx@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s 4200 TWh/year, or 480 GW.

    Though that ignores the power consumption that isn’t electrical yet, like transportation and heating.