{"id":359,"date":"2012-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/wind-and-solar-were-all-the-new-us-electric-generation-in-september-2012.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"wind-and-solar-were-all-the-new-us-electric-generation-in-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/wind-and-solar-were-all-the-new-us-electric-generation-in-september-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Wind and solar were all the new U.S. electric generation in September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWind and sun provided all the new electric power generation
\ndeployed in September 2012.
\nAs Moore’s Law continues to decrease solar prices, solar
\npower gets deployed still more rapidly,
\nand wind also gets installed on time and on budget.
\nMeanwhile, nuclear takes a
\n
\nthree-legged nuclear regulatory-capture stool<\/a>
\nand hardly any new reactors get finished anyway.\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nStephen Lacey wrote for TP Climate Progress 24 October 2012,
\n
\nWind And Solar Make Up 100% Of New U.S. Electricity Capacity In September<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSeptember was tied for the
\n
\nhottest of any September<\/a> on record
\nglobally. It was also a very hot month for renewable energy in the
\nU.S. According
\n
\nto figures<\/a> from the Federal Energy Regulatory
\nCommission, wind and solar accounted for all new electricity
\ncapacity added to America’s grid in September.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nNew wind is up 25% Jan-Sep 2012 over the same period last year,
\nand new solar is up 78%.
\nFor comparison, new coal is<\/p>\n


\nup 22%, new natural gas is down 50%,
\nand new oil electrical
\ngeneration is down 90%.
\nLast year solar accounted for only 70% more new megawatts than biomass;
\nthis year it was 170%.
\nLast year wind and solar combined added twice as many megawatts
\nas coal; this year more than that (2.29 times or 129%).
\nLast year wind + sun accounted for only 40% as much new generation
\nas natural gas; this year 109%.
\nSo wind increased faster than any chemical-fuel-burning energy
\ngeneration method, and solar increased faster than that.
\nThis continues the long-term trend of solar prices going down
\nand solar deployment going up.\n<\/p>\n

\nEven in Georgia solar deployment is going up.
\nBut solar and solar jobs would go up a lot faster without that
\n
\n1973 Territorial Electric Service Act<\/a>
\ngetting in the way.
\nYou can vote right now for two new Georgia Public Service Commissioners
\nand for new legislators who could fix that.\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wind and sun provided all the new electric power generation deployed in September 2012. As Moore’s Law continues to decrease solar prices, solar power gets deployed still more rapidly, and wind also gets installed on time and on budget. Meanwhile, nuclear takes a three-legged nuclear regulatory-capture stool and hardly any new reactors get finished anyway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,141,216,14,49,16,17,8,20,104,21,22,23,24,36],"tags":[8738,8745,8753,8704,8721,8706,8707,8701,8702,8710,12,7,25,562,8737,8711,8712,8713,8714,971,6,8716],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biomass","category-co2","category-coal","category-economy","category-elections","category-environment","category-ga-psc","category-georgia","category-law","category-nuclear","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-biomass","tag-co2","tag-coal","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-environment","tag-ga-psc","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-moores-law","tag-natural-gas","tag-nuclear","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-territorial-electric-service-act","tag-valdosta","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}