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It wouldn't matter. LNG is expensive and used only when piped supplies are inadequate.In a 'monumental shift', EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
Europe's coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember.
Limiting US export of LNG will help push Europe to even more renewables adoption and compete with China as the leader on renewables!
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Interesting chart @iPlug. It must be derived from different data than the CAISO supplied data, though I haven't checked the source provided.No question on efficiency improvements, but we should add an "asterisk" to the developing EV situation.
Probably somewhat still in the noise at a national level. But it's a little early to say with current and near future EV impacts. California is ahead of the EV game and total electricity use has been increasing here the last 2 years of record, quite possibly due to that. Based on prior releases, we wont see 2023 data until this summer to see if the trend is sustained.
2022 Total System Electric Generation
Can you post links? Not sure what we are measuring and comparing here. Y-axis unit in my referenced chart was energy (GWh). Y-axis unit in your first chart here is not labeled, but title suggests not energy but power (W) and it’s a rolling 12-month average. Your second chart is then energy (in your highlighted red box), but for renewables. But the red box looks to be total demand for that day (unrelated to renewables)?
I can pull up the CAISO data as you describe for your second chart. But are you saying you manually compile the first chart you posted from individual days reported on your second chart? The numbers you posted do not match the CEC data (in-State generation or total which includes imports).
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Wyoming is still all in on fossil fuels.
Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing - Inside Climate News
The Cowboy State has doled out tens of millions of state taxpayer dollars to fossil fuel-adjacent projects, even as it faces a shortage of options to take advantage of clean-energy funding.
Last month, the Wyoming Energy Authority, the state agency Gov. Mark Gordon tasked with distributing $150 million from the newly created Energy Matching Funds program for “projects related to Wyoming energy needs,” awarded the project $7.79 million dollars. So far, the Energy Matching Funds have paid out $57.6 million to projects that would creatively generate fossil fuels, capture or sequester carbon or explore hydrogen fuel generation.
The Energy Matching Funds appear to be Wyoming’s largest bet on its energy future, and as more of those funds get tied up in industries that could extend the Cowboy state’s dependency on fossil fuels, some who follow the state’s energy sector have wondered how wisely Wyoming is spending its own taxpayer dollars, of which there are few to begin with.
Compounding the need to spend wisely is the state’s apparent lack of interest in the millions of dollars in clean energy funding available to Wyoming through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which have gained little traction in the state. Last November, Gordon rejected IRA grants to tamp down pollution, in part due to his desire to preserve “Wyoming’s ‘all-of-the-above’ energy development.” Wyoming school districts are the only ones in the country yet to utilize IIJA funds to purchase electric school buses.
Good point. Hydrogen requires a big investment both on the supply end and the use end. Once you've made that, you have signed up for the long term.
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