Solar, wind and other renewables generating at least 25% of our electrical energy backed up mostly by natural gas fired turbines and maybe a few more nukes is the most likely scenario over the next 25 years. As coal plants retire, a mix of new renewables and gas fired plants will take their place.
Notwithstanding some movement towards solar in states like California and to a far lesser extent New Jersey and Connecticut (the majority of which is small distributed roof-top projects), the vast majority of U.S. utilities have barely budged towards adopting solar in any meaningful way. Not that they aren’t aware of solar or aren’t sudying it mind you. They just aren’t buying into big megawatts of it. Why is that?
Continue reading about Why Utilities Aren’t Running Towards Solar Power
