EIA Forecast Electricity Generation in 2001, and Got it SO Wrong!

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:00:59 +0000

By James Morton Turner, an environmental studies professor at Wellesley College and author of the forthcoming book Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. He published the lead op-ed in the journal Science’s special climate change issue two weeks ago (June 24, 2022).

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US EIA Projected the Future of Electricity Generation in 2001. Why Were They So Wrong?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:00:59 +0000

By James Morton Turner, an environmental studies professor at Wellesley College and author of the forthcoming book Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. He published the lead op-ed in the journal Science’s special climate change issue two weeks ago (June 24, 2022). Back in 2001, the U.S. Energy Information Administration […]

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EIA Releases 2050 Projections For Energy & Makes It Clear That It Hasn’t Been Paying Attention

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:00:36 +0000

It’s unclear why the EIA 2050 projections are so skewed from observable realities of costs, age of fleets, and global industry transformation. Like most major energy analysis organizations, they are very poor at predicting the rapidly declining costs of wind and solar, very poor at predicting the rapidity of growth of those technologies, and very poor at understanding that the existing technologies are fairly radically outcompeted

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US Non-Hydro Renewables Grow 6.2%, Provide 11.4% Of US Electricity

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:55:16 +0000

A new analysis of recently released data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) by the SUN DAY Campaign has highlighted the fact that renewable energy sources accounted for 18.49% of US electrical generation during the first eight months of 2019 — up from 17.95% a year earlier. 

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