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.

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.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
      62·
      1 year ago

      I’m a layman in the subject but energy consumption tends to be diminishing on all fronts as technology becomes more efficient.

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          The designs for those have really improved too, also a lot of the stuff the internet has made obsolete was very energy intensive so when just looking at the whole picture numbers there can still be a trend down

        • qyron@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          1 year ago

          Again, just a layman, but had a person in a thread tell me they ran an Opteron for some time and they noticed how warm the house was kept with that machine working.

          After being put to rest, replaced by more modern machines, the eletric bill dropped, even when the heating was added in.

          • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Was that me?

            If so I moved to low power i5s and run super cool and quiet without any loss of functionality or slowdowns. And my energy bill is much more pleasant now! A few generations of CPUs and it’s worth just replacing old gear if you can, especially enterprise stuff.

            • qyron@sopuli.xyz
              21·
              1 year ago

              Well isn’t the world a small place!

              Only critique I have is: you should have kept to AMD.

              • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                The mid-range at the time for AMD re: motherboard or CPU wasn’t spectacular, and I wanted dual Intel GBE on the motherboard, otherwise I totally would have (my actual desktop machine is AMD)

                • qyron@sopuli.xyz
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Just messing with you. I’m a self confessed AMD fanboy but I respect some will want to try other hardware or have specific wants or needs.

                  Nonetheless: AMD is the best!