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U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Renewables, not including nuclear, overtook coal in 2022.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

But the most recent statistics showed why wind and solar are on track in 2024 to exceed coal generation for an entire calendar year

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EIA previously reported that renewable generation eclipsed coal in 2020 and 2022 and then repeated the feat in 2023. But those figures notably included other resources such as hydropower. Now wind and solar are posed to overtake coal on their own.