Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.
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California produced 26 per cent of the national utility-scale solar electricity followed by Texas with 16 per cent and North Carolina with 8 per cent."This booming growth is driven largely by economics," said Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy. "Over the past decade, the levelized cost of wind energy declined by 70 percent, while the levelized cost of solar power has declined by an even more impressive 90 percent.
"Wind and solar are going to be the backbone of the growth in renewables, but whether or not they can provide 100% of the U.S. electricity without backup is something that engineers are debating," said Brown University's Porder. The EIA report found the country remains heavily reliant on the burning of climate-changing fossil fuels. Coal-fired generation was 20 per cent of the electric sector in 2022, a decline from 23 per cent in 2021. Natural gas was the largest source of electricity in the U.S. in 2022, generating 39 per cent last year compared to 37 per cent in 2021.
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