USA rocketing all the way up to... [checks notes]... around 75th in the world for percentage of renewable electricity generation. Oh.

To be fair, the U.S is quite large. I wonder what the actual mega wattage is compared to others

It’s easy to scale up when it takes one wind farm to generate 100% of your power. The US energy grid is massive.

2nd place using total renewable generation, 12th using MWh/person.

A total number of provided jobs would be a nice number to have. The Green energy industry is still the 'energy industry' so these positive developments supports the tech and the job creation that comes with it.

People also forget that a lot of that % is sort of a misnomer.

A huge chunk of it comes from hydro projects, which have existed in the Pacific Northwest, Sun Belt, Tennessee Valley, and New England/Quebec region for more than a generation.

If you subtract those long standing projects from the calculation, I would guess the number of modern projects accounts for closer to 10% of current generation.

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>Solar was the fastest-growing renewable energy source – output by solar increased by 24.14% and its share of total US electrical generation for the year was 4.74%.
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>Electrical generation by wind also expanded significantly – growing by 14.97% and providing over a tenth of total US electrical generation in 2022.

Maybe. But Solar and Wind are growing quite quickly.

I know in my area they're putting up solar and wind farms like crazy. My warehouse is powered 100% by renewable energy off the grid now.

Why do those not count?

If that were how we counted things Canada would be pretty screwed on statistics.

So, if we're not supposed to count any power generation source that's over a generation old, does that mean we can ignore most of the coal and gas power stations too?

The US also has a huge amount of money. Taxes and population scale together.

Spend some and get it done.