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submitted 1 year ago by lntl@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I think you mean Twh not Gwh.. For reference Norway produces about 150 Twh a year

[-] agarorn@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

His unit was GW, not GWh. Maybe you are talking about the same if you multiply by 365x24.

[-] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly not sure. Their mixed use of billions, trillions, kilo, giga, etc was confusing me.

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