Who has the most new solar capacity? Obviously big states do. But what if you adjust for population and look at solar module shipments per capita?
It turns out it's mostly still the big states that are solar leaders: California, Texas, Georgia, and Illinois. But Nevada has them all beat by a mile.
With all the electricity blackouts Texas has endured, I am surprised those "cowboys" aren't making themselves independent.
They've done better in the recent heat because of their growing solar capacity...
Texas Tribune: "Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips the state"
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/
"I am surprised those "cowboys" aren't making themselves independent."
They already have that covered--no electrical grid connections to other states, so that way Texas can't be regulated by the big mean federal government. As Texas's leadership put it, Texas would rather die from power failures than subject themselves to the horrors of federal grid standards.
And since they are independent of the Federal grid, they can't sell excess electrons when they have them. Odd sort of Capitalism, "we have it, but we will set it up so we can't sell it."
I haven't read too much about it and likely a little off topic, but with increasing EV range and the fact that a few EVs can be used to power a house for as much as a couple of days (Ford Lightening, Hyundai Ionic, etc.) farmers might be looking into solar with an EV.
What with power outages from the weather, exploding silos, right wing terrorist groups, etc. one could give oneself some options.
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Texas has made itself independent — from the national grid because they didn’t want the big, bad gubmint telling them what to do. That independence has contributed significantly to the blackouts.
That’s a “joke” that only works if TX’ history of electricity problems is worse than, for example, CA’s. Is it — remember the Enron blackouts in CA?
What does the DATA show?
Peut-être, Nevada can buy some water with the proceeds from selling their electric windfall....
New Mexico is beaten by most of the Northeast with their famous cloudless skies.
Since I live there, I wondered about this. Then I realized that KD is using absolute numbers, not per-capita. With a population of only 2M, until large scale commercial solar really takes off, NM is never going to win out against states where a single metro area has more people than our entire state.
Kevin's chart is solar generation per capita.
Ouch. Je suis un Bozo.
Headline says capacity.
Chart says shipments…
You think someone is ordering panels and burying them in the ground? Or stockpiling them in warehoues?
It's a godless liberal plot to goose the numbers and make red-blooded MAGA Americans buy induction range stoves!
Out of curiosity, how does an "induction range stove" differ from the induction cooktop my wife and I are anxiously awaiting an inspection and electrical service upgrade to be able to use? Along with the EV charger we've had installed to go with the replacement of our gas furnace with a heatpump...
Induction stoves have an oven and the induction cooktop in one combined unit. I have an induction cooktop in my countertop. My oven is a separate unit located across the room.
No, I think that "capacity" would include shipments from 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, etc etc etc...
It says "**new** solar capacity" (emphasis mine), which would likely correspond well with shipments.
I of course didn’t follow my own advice:
Archive dot org early.
Archive dot org often.
Now “new” appears with capacity…
Well, I'd ask about WA state. But.
But seriously, our summers are more and more like California's, lately, and it don't seem to be quittin'...
Electricity declines over distance. Thus, distance to an end user, such as a major city is important (at least with current technology). A better metric, perhaps, would be percent of the current demand/the grid that is served by solar...
Your presentation left out a key footnote. Maybe you ought to share.
I notice Arizona is quite poor given the amount of sun they get.