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Solar and wind power plants continue to grow rapidly in the United States, and coal continues to decline — despite the current federal government so heavily putting its thumb on the side of coal. Solar and wind continue to get deployed rapidly due to their pure free-market competitiveness, while the death of the coal industry is basically just being delayed by crony capitalism.
The SUN DAY Campaign has analyzed the latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and has a lot to share. Note that this includes discussion of power capacity (the max power rating of power plants) and electricity generation (how much electricity was actually generated). It also includes a discussion of new installations as well as capacity and generation from the total installed fleet of power plants.
I could write a normal article about all of this, but given the stat-packed nature of this report, I prefer to share three bullet lists of the various stats and go from there.
Electricity Generation
