“Alternative” has always implied a sideline, a little sprinkle of clean energy on top of a huge helping of fossil fuels. No more. Virtually all the new electricity will be from renewables in the US. We still need to retire and replace generation from existing dirty plants but no one wants to build them anymore.
The red slice is nuclear. I wonder where that will be.
This is a big year for power plant construction generally. The U.S. is slated to build 55% more power capacity than it did in 2023; the Energy Information Administration says the 62.8 gigawatts expected to be added in 2024 will be the most built in a year since 2003.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-nearly-all-new-us-power-plants-built-in-2024-will-be-clean-energy
Darcy Hitchcock 
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