The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of production capacity this year, up 53% on new capacity in 2022 and helped by investment incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, a report published on Thursday showed.
32 GW is a lot. The average thermal coal generating station in the US is 1GW and these stations have an average capacity of 50%. That means that this colar prodution capacity enables us to displace 64 coal stations during the daytime if consumption does not grow.
I think you mean Twh not Gwh… For reference Norway produces about 150 Twh a year
I’m honestly not sure. Their mixed use of billions, trillions, kilo, giga, etc was confusing me.
His unit was GW, not GWh. Maybe you are talking about the same if you multiply by 365x24.