Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022

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4. It might have escaped you while you were jumping up and down DQIIIIIIII

But the slope of the curves for Wind and Solar indicate the continued increase in installations coming online.

And yes wind and solar depend on fossil fuels to fill in when they aren't available. But also with the increase in wind and solar there has been an increase in battery storage. Transmission lines from the wind belt East would also help.

But as I have said in the past and you have pointed out as well - when a utility uses wind and solar output instead of the output from a natgas plant- it increases the cost of power from those natgas plants. Which of course means that more wind and solar will be brought online.

Something that is probably not lost on utility planners - natgas going from $3 to $8 and now back down to $2 a unit. Last thing they want to try to plan for.

I also noticed that the increase in the use of natgas came pretty much at the expense of coal. Not a bad thing in my view...