Experts Anticipate Renewable Energy Will Overrun White House’s Dopey “Energy Dominance” Policy

From the article: Energy dominance is a dopey theme, and it’s no shocker to see President Trump make it sound even more idiotic. Despite his bloviating about the greatness of fossil energy, the numbers show that renewable energy is the best way for the US to assert “energy dominance,” whatever that is. Renewables accounted for more than 90% of the new electricity generating capacity added in the US last year, and there’s plenty more where that comes from.

Considering the [attempted](https://www.wpr.org/news/baldwin-moore-call-musk-trump-spending-cuts-coup-insurrection) coup now underway (don’t just take my word for it), it’s something of a relief to see that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is still at the job of issuing its monthly energy reports. Still, the agency is not exactly trumpeting the great showing by renewable energy last year. So far, FERC has not posted a press release summarizing the 2024 data on its website.

Nevertheless, last week the organization SUN DAY Campaign sent a summary of the 2024 report to its mailing list, which it found at FERC under the heading “Energy Infrastructure [Update](https://cms.ferc.gov/media/energy-infrastructure-update-december-2024) for December 2024,” dated February 6 of this year.

As summarized by the SUN DAY Campaign, the renewable energy picture in the US is somewhat lopsided. Solar energy alone accounted for over 81% of the new capacity added in December 2024, with the total coming in at 90.5% for the year.

The low showing from wind developers is not a surprise, and the picture does not look any better this year. President Trump single-handedly dealt a lethal blow to the US offshore wind industry — and its 40-state supply chain, too — when he froze federal offshore leases. Onshore wind activity, though, still has some potential to pick up, including contributions from the wind farm repowering industry.

On the bright side, the renewable energy picture is much brighter for the US solar industry, which does not depend on federal leases. In that regard, the SUN DAY campaign draws particular attention to the all-important capacity factor.

On a standalone basis, nuclear energy has a higher capacity factor than any other means of generating electricity, because nuclear power plants can run close to maximum power any time of the day or night. Capacity factor is a measurement of how much of a plant’s maximum 24/7 power is actually output, explains the US Department of Energy.

Even Germany, who had been kicking and screaming about renewables entirely along the way, has hit 60% renewables in 2024, with no end in sight.

China is about to go full renewables.

Soon the USA will be in competition with countries who get their electricity mostly for free, while the USA still needs to pay for it.

Even a moron can figure out what is going to happen next.

Not after they “Ban energy derived from the movement of Earth and Sun” /s

While I think denying climate change is absurd I am not too worried.

In the end, especially in the US, greed will prevail. Even if oil and gas companies get many benefits there will be a point where it will simply be cheaper in the long run to invest in solar, wind, nuclear or other forms of renewables.

The companies that don’t make the fossil fuels will happily cut out this middle man and US citizens tend to lean to the self sufficient side so I see it only as a matter of time.

The only thing I really worry about that these policies will put the US even further behind its competition.
Not to mention that the US economy relies very heavily on the sale of fossil fuel, especially to wealthy and well paying countries/victims such as Europe and they are not happy to [paying $200+ million in PROFITS](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/us-natural-gas-exports-europe-surge-energy-crisis-trader-profits-2022-8?op=1) for **each** US LNG ship that docks at their ports.

So that is a market that will practically will go away in a likely less than a decade as they continue to invest into solar and wind. It does sadly mean there is a good chance the US/Russian war will continue for another decade and is likely a big part of the reason why Trump is not keeping his promise to end the war.

It will be a massive setback for the US economy if Russia’s much cheaper gas/oil starts flowing to Europe again. Something I, as an European, can’t wait to happen. The EU economy is collapsing as we speak and the cost of energy combined with too many regulations are the main drivers of the de-industrialization of Europe.

And I’m sure this will get down voted into oblivion, it always does in English/western social media. Just keep in mind that Putin did warn us about the fking Nazi’s.. we all collectively laughed when he did but now the country with the biggest economy and biggest armies is doing fking Nazi salutes in the White House. Also don’t forget that Ukraine’s Zelensky brought a Nazi to receive a standing ovation in [Canadian parlement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsilnLnyWCA).

I don’t know about you but I hate the Nazi’s more than I do the Russians. I am sure we can come to an agreement with Russia, they have proposed 7+ peace treaties already but the Nazi’s.. well. We might need the god damn Russians for what is to come. Don’t forget that over 27 MILLION Russians died in WW2. They want this shit even less than we do.