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The US government underestimated solar energy installation in the US by 4,813%
The only thing certain in this life are death, taxes and the US department of energy’s massive underestimate of renewable energy capacity. Every two years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), America’s official source for energy statistics, issues scenarios about how much solar, wind and conventional energy the future holds for the US. Every two years, since the mid-1990s, the EIA is wrong. Last year, it was spectacularly wrong.
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I imagine it would have been even higher if so many places hadn't passed laws allowing the electric companies, usually a monopoly, to impose strict only they can resell electricity laws. This, in turn, requires your solar panels to be on the grid, at which point the electric company gets to basically control it. Then other places like Florida demonize politicians who want to expand rooftop solar, all while allowing Florida Power to pay lobbyists and campaigns to keep it that way.