But Victor considers it as a slowdown that a reversal of the momentum. One of the reasons is that electricity demand continues to increase to serve data centers and other major power users. The main beneficiaries are the energy technologies that are easiest to build and the most profitable, including solar energy, batteries and gas.
During the first half of this year, the United States added 341 new power plants or battery systems across public services, with a total of 2,332 megawatts of summer generation capacity, according to EIA.
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More than half of the total was solar on the scale of public services, with 12,034 megawatts, followed by battery systems, with 5,900 megawatts, a wind on the ground, with 2,697 megawatts and natural gas, with 1,691 megawatts, which includes several types of natural gas plants.
The largest factory factory was the solar hornet of 600 megawatts in the county of Swisher, Texas, which was put online in April.
“Hornet Solar testifies to the way in which large-scale energy projects can offer reliable interior power to American houses and companies,” said Juan Suarez, co-PDG of the developer, Vesper Energy of the Dallas Area, in a press release from the ribbon cup ceremony.
The completed factories are now specially special because of what they have endured, said Ric O’Connell, Executive Director of Gridlab, a non -profit organization that performs a technical analysis for regulators and renewable energy defenders. Electrics take years to plan and build, and current projects have probably started development during the COVVI-19 pandemic. They stayed on the right track despite high inflation, a shortage of parts and challenges to obtain approval of network connections, he said.
“It was a difficult route for many of these projects, so it’s exciting to see them online,” said O’Connell.
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In the rest of the rest of this year and until 2030, the country has 254,126 megawatts of power plants planned, according to EIA. (To appear on this list, a project must respond to three of the four benchmarks: the acquisition of land, the permits obtained, the funding received and a contract completed for the sale of electricity.)
Solar is the leader with 120,269 megawatts, followed by batteries, with 65,051 megawatts and natural gas, with 35,081 megawatts.
