The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.
  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    With its 267 GW, the US can supply about 8% of its total electricity demand.

    Good to see USA is progressing too. But to be fair, USA has way better conditions for solar power than Europe.
    So USA should be ahead of Europe instead of behind.

    https://earthlymission.com/latitude-comparison-of-north-america-and-europe-north-africa/

    The North of USA is similar southern Europe, and south of USA is similar to the middle east.
    This means that solar panels are working at capacity much more of the time in USA than in Europe, and that USA does not have 3 months per year where the panels only yield very little, which must then be compensated from other sources. So solar is both more efficient and more reliable through the seasons in USA than for Europe.

    So there is absolutely potential to expand solar more and faster in USA.