You may have noticed a significant uptick on social media of people promoting nuclear energy. I know that I have on X.
This is the reason why. #Solar #batteries and other storage are on their way towards making every other energy generation industry uncompetitive.
Domestic energy production is a national security issue and so is #GlobalWarming so #ThanxBiden for beginning the U.S. transition off fossil fuels.
Silfab is scheduled to begin operations in mid- to late-2024 of its own cell-production line at its third U.S. facility. The new facility will have an initial annual capability of 1 gigawatt cell production and an additional 1.2 gigawatts of PV solar module assembly. #ClimateProgress #ClimateSolutions
https://silfabsolar.com/silfab-solar-announces-topcon-pv-modules-for-commercial-residential-projects/
Homeowners in the U.S. are stepping up to the plate and investing in #Solar
Of course, I need to plead for more people to deploy clean energy faster though too.
@GreenFire
This is awesome progress!
As grid scale energy storage costs continue to fall I'm sure that small scale renewables will make a bigger difference for the whole energy infrastructure thanks to investments today.
@GreenFire
Absolutely!
By empowering energy users with the technology to become their own local producers, we will be reducing our reliance on the national grid while strengthening the resiliency of our local communities.
@Br0qm
Yes exactly right, and with battery prices dropping even apartment dwellers will be able to start having them in order to store the electricity from the sun during the day in order to use it in the evening.
But the major benefit from #solar plus #batteries will be to reduce the amount of power that has to be transferred on our grids since it is going to take a while to build new transmission.