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

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6. How much worse would climate change be without the 14% that wind and solar contributed in 2022?

Why is ok that you use a battery in your cell phone (or the battery in your hybrid) but not OK for a utility to use batteries to manage the output of wind and solar?

So instead of sending excess electricity to the grid and driving down prices, use that to charge batteries or pumped hydro storage and use the stored energy during peak demand periods. EIA says it's approx 80% efficient.

Utility-scale batteries and pumped storage return about 80% of the electricity they store

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756

You at various times jump up and down about expensive energy (Europe this past fall and winter) but how much of our situation is due to cheap energy? How many of our residential and commercial buildings were built when the cost of energy was so cheap it didn't make sense to design and build with energy efficiency as one of the primary design objectives?

In 2021, the combined end-use energy consumption by the residential and commercial sectors was about 21 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu). This was equal to about 28% of total U.S. end-use energy consumption in 2021.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=86&t=1

I have one question for DQIIIIIIII - do you think we are past the tipping point?