Over the past 18 months solar, wind, and battery storage added 89 gigawatts of capacity in the U.S. Utility solar capacity rose 33% over the previous year, wind capacity rose 8%, battery capacity doubled, coal capacity dropped by 2.4%, natural gas capacity rose by just 1.5%.

[u/sg_plumber]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-can-t-kill-renewables

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[u/HalPaneo]

Imagine how much more it would've been of there were actually people in charge that support it

[u/Affectionate-Ant8 → u/HalPaneo]

LNG in the US is currently experiencing one of the largest construction booms in the world. There’s 5+ separate LNG mega refinery projects on the gulf coast alone right now.

[u/beermaker]

Our electric bill was -$7 last month... Installing our heat pump water heater made all the difference in what we send back upstream.

[u/Aleyla]

So why hasn’t my per kw price not dropped?

[u/sg_plumber → u/Aleyla]

Apart from the double negative, supply and demand.

[u/Embarrassed_Quit_450 → u/sg_plumber]

Snarky and accurate I like it.

[u/Stormtemplar → u/Aleyla]

Two factors: 1. A fairly rapid rise in demand and 2. Generation costs have fallen but distribution and transmission costs have risen for a number of reasons (aging infrastructure, increased climate risk, growing demand)

[u/Rxyro → u/Stormtemplar]

Surge of costs for copper and transformers and labor

[u/YodelingTortoise → u/Aleyla]

Honestly? Because electric rates haven't followed inflation for decades. And part of that was in deferred maintenance. The bill on that deferred maintenance has come due and the distribution systems are being asked to supply more than ever.

This is the why.

The how we got here and who is to blame is a far more complex story that isn't always as simple as greedy utilities (though that is certainly a factor)

[u/TheReal_BucNasty → u/[deleted]]

What's wrong with nuclear?

[u/wessex464 → u/[deleted]]

Nuclear is basically renewable. Negligible resource usage for so much power...

We need a lot more nuclear.

[u/extralargeeggdog → u/[deleted]]

Nuclear is by far the best energy source lol

[u/stgiga]

Renewable energy is the future.