See, this is what worries me about the Manchin / Barrasso approach to "permitting reform" (and about the idea that the "abundance agenda" is the solution to climate change).
Yes, renewables are displacing coal, at least, but fossil fuels and therefore emissions overall are still rising.
Yes, renewables are displacing coal, at least, but fossil fuels and therefore emissions overall are still rising.
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Still doesn't mean that deregulation is going to get the grid to zero emissions, tho!
The LNG provisions are effectively moot with an incoming Trump admin, as they mostly existed to force Biden/Harris to stop dragging their feet. Trump can just expedite them with an EO.
Fossil fuels are flat over the last 20 years, but most renewables are going towards meeting new electricity demand. Solar will take another step up, but we’re far from “abundance” and the fast replacement of fossil.
and in our full US electricity dataset
https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data/
Worth noting that these emissions are calculated from generation and emissions factors and are not directly reported emissions, but most figures will be in this range.
As well as decarbonising the grid, a much bigger issue is getting old energy uses electrified.
The focus on electricity may have been a good start but it's not enough now.
Rick H
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-but-it-isnt-a-climate-champion/
@emberenergy.bsky.social have both monthly and yearly raw data broken down by state, including absolute emissions and intensity (grams co2 per kilowatt hour) over time -->> https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data/
+ browse this in a nice interface if needed: https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data-explorer/
https://environmentamerica.org/texas/center/media-center/new-analysis-texas-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-electricity-sector-drop-19/
Sort of steepens the long-term trend: but in both cases, TX power GHGs are rising from 2021 on.
https://cfpub.epa.gov/ghgdata/inventor