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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.

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[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Last i saw the US had just got to the point of having more solar generation than coal, it's a great milestone because in this broken world it means we'll have not solar lobbyists than coal lobbyists