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. “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.” 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>
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