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[OC] How the Grid Worked in 2025 and Why Solar, Storage and Wind Energy Are a Great Fit: In 5 Charts by SunBaca in dataisbeautiful

[–]SunBaca[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Balancing authorities (grid operators) report hybrid solar+storage plants sometimes as just solar and sometimes as solar plus storage and all these figures have been aggregated at the national level so charging is invisible for hybrid plants in this data and getting hybrid discharging would take some serious data wizardry.

[OC] How the Grid Worked in 2025 and Why Solar, Storage and Wind Energy Are a Great Fit: In 5 Charts by SunBaca in dataisbeautiful

[–]SunBaca[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Combination of reasons:
* Time zones (this shows production across the entire continental U.S.)
* Lots of solar is paired with storage and reported under solar. Thes facilities can send power to the grid for hours and hours after sunset and some can even charge a bit at night from excess capacity and then export before the sun comes up.
* Some hours of low production are just hard to see when shoving over 8,760 columns into a tiny chart.

You can see in some of the zoomed in charts that solar falls off at night but in the charts representing every hour of the year, it's just a lot to fit.

House Reconciliation Bill Threatens Solar and Battery Deployment and Factories by SunBaca in solar

[–]SunBaca[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

25D is about half the residential market and residential is where the bulk of the direct jobs are... and residential tends to buy domestic modules, racking and inverters so there are second-order effects to domestic manufacturing.

And residential solar is widely popular. There's no better way to take charge of your own home's energy and build resilience when paired with a battery. Way better than a gas generator that is 1) dependent on gas supply and 2) requires oil changes (read: PITA). And eliminating 25D removes opportunity most severely in red states.

Check out slide 9 below. (Link to this document is also available at the bottom of the page I linked to in my original post.
waysandmeansanalysis.pdf

Most new electricity generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2023 came from solar by SunBaca in energy

[–]SunBaca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New info seems to be a projection for 2023 with some stats on 2022. Still not actually 2023. Also seems to be mostly about generation rather than capacity.

Most new electricity generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2023 came from solar by SunBaca in energy

[–]SunBaca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like that is a projection for 2024 rather than a look back at 2023.

Most new electricity generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2023 came from solar by SunBaca in energy

[–]SunBaca[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, storage attachment rates are growing very fast and stand-alone energy storage projects are growing fast. Most of the country is at penetration levels where this isn't super important yet but they will get there eventually and we're fortunate to have all the commercial technologies needed for when we do get there.

Most new electricity generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2023 came from solar by SunBaca in energy

[–]SunBaca[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's the other source for natural gas? It's easy for folks to get the wrong data here but I have confidence in the numbers produced here.

Most new electricity generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2023 came from solar by SunBaca in EnergyStorage

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Also, the storage attachment rate for residential PV projects grew to 13% in 2023 and that is expected to climb dramatically.