US Solar Installations 2023

<p>As 2023 comes to the close of a record-shattering yr, nearly 33 gigawatts [GW] or billion watts of solar will have been installed. [A GW is approximately the power of a nuclear or large coal plant]. This is a significant leap up from the 21 GW installed in 2022. Note the graph reflects utility, non-residential + residential categories. Even solar arrays on homes such as ours added about 7 GW, way more than the single nuclear power plant put into service in Georgia this yr. &ldquo;Solar is the fastest-growing source of electricity in the U.S., making up almost half of all new power capacity in the first three quarters of 2023.&rdquo; Total solar in US now about 161 GW, + generates about 5% of our electricity. For 2022, nuclear was 18% of generation with 93 reactors, down from 112 reactors in 1990 + 20.1% of generation in 1995.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@sandy.george.lawrence/us-solar-installations-2023-1977ff1ad2c7"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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