How much of new capacity will be carbon free in 2021?

80% of the US Grid generation capacity that is added in 2021 will be carbon emission free according to the US Energy Information Agency 

Is carbon free being led by nukes or batteries? Batteries will offer more than 10%, 4.3GW of the total new 40 GW capacity

What’s the rest of the new capacity look like?

  • natural gas is down 34% from last year and down 60% over 3 years
  • 12.2GW of new wind capacity
  • 15.4GW of new solar capacity

Ars Technica | US grid will see 80 percent of its new capacity go emission-free