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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] YungOnions@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

There's a lag in the figures. We won't find out total usage for 2024 until the beginning of 2025, but the data we do have shows that it will. It's a weirdly worded title, I grant you.

[–] MrJukes 7 points 6 days ago

I can't wait to see how much we generated in 2023!

Is this good news? I thought we had already passed this benchmark, did we regress?

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But the US energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation. Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace, renewable production will have to continue to grow dramatically for a few years before it can simply cover the added demand.

[–] Tobberone@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Which, in the end will make a "no renewables"-stance untenable, since renewables are the only way of growing the energy sector fast enough.