Electrek

Solar to displace natural gas in the daytime + in summer on the Texas grid

Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Texas’s electricity mix of energy ...
Power Engineering

U.S. generation projected to rise 3% this year, driven by solar and natural gas

A portion of the Eleven Mile Solar Center under construction. (Courtesy: Ørsted) U.S. electricity generation is expected to increase by 3% – 121 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) – this year compared to ...
KHQ

Solar and Wind Won’t Replace Natural Gas for Decades: They Will Depend on It.

A new LOCAL online community built for you. Click now to see all the available groups. Solar and wind are rolling out rapidly in the U.S. They account for about 19 percent of energy generation today, ...
The Denver Post

Wind and solar would replace most of Xcel’s troubled Comanche 3 coal plant power — but not all

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most of the power to replace the last of Xcel Energy’s coal plants in Colorado, including a chronically troubled facility, would come from renewable energy ...