Energy facts - Freeing Energy

This is a list of all the facts, graphs, and quick insights referenced by articles and the book manuscript.

grid outages US history Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was the biggest — Largest US Power Outages

natural gas was the main culprit in the Texas black out — Texas 2021 outage facts

Lithium-ion battery costs decline as manufacturing expands

Solar PV costs decline as manufacturing expands

graph showing the cost of battery dropping over 500% over the last decade — Cost of battery has droppped 500%

graph showing the price of wind, solar, and battery dropping significantly in the past decade — Cost of clean energy is rapidly declining

graph showing that the government dramatically underforecasts solar capacity every year — Gov projections vs. actual solar capacity

graph showing that local energy is cheaper than the grid, and the gap is widening — Local energy is cheaper than the grid

no discernable trend between renewable energy growth and state electricity prices — Renewable Growth vs. State Electricity Prices

clean energy now costs less than pre-existing power plants — Clean Energy Costs Less Than Power Plants

fossil fuels have gotten more tax subsidies than solar and wind since the ITC — US Tax Subsidies Since ITC

Commercial solar is already cheaper than the grid and the gap is widening — Commercial Solar Has Crossed Tipping Point

Fossil Fuel Reserves will not last more than 150 years — Fossil Fuel Reserves Becoming Unviable

The drivers of solar adoption are changing with the costs — Drivers of Solar Adoption

Investments in renewable energy dwarf those of previous large-scale projects — Biggest Business Opportunity in History

There are 5 orders to the value chain model for clean energy — Energy Value Chain

The cost of solar has dropped over 400 times since 1977 — The Cost of Solar has Dropped

People are switching to local energy for cheaper prices, causing the grid to become more expensive — The Death Spiral of Grid Defection

residential solar vs. grid — Price of Residential Solar vs. Grid

A graph showing how commercial scale solar has become less expensive the grid electricity — The price of commercial-scale solar is less than grid-based electricity

Solar emits far less toxic waste than nuclear and coal — Toxicity of Power Plant Waste

Solar, wind, and gas are forecasted to drop dramatically in price — Solar forecast to be cheaper than wind or gas

It is cheaper to build a new solar or wind project than to operate an existing coal plant — Cost of New Solar & Wind vs. Paid for Coal

Renewables generally have a lower cost of generating electricity than traditional energy sources — Comparing Cost of Generating Electricity

Water used by power plants including coal, nuclear, gas, solar, wind — Water usage for power plants including coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and wind.

Construction waste from retired decommissioned power plants solar coal nuclear — Waste from retired power plants

Land Required for Generating Electricity

Graph showing US per capita electricity consumption shrinking — US per capita Electricity Consumption Declining

Graph showing US electricity jobs in 2019 — US Electricity Jobs (2019)

Graph showing the amount of US bird deaths by cause — Cause of US Bird Deaths

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Energy Fact - US weather-related outages between 2000 and 2020	g206
Energy Fact - The number of jobs created per MW of solar installed	g207
Energy Fact - Soft costs are the largest part of small US solar installations	g133
Energy Fact - Hurricane Maria created the largest blackout in US history	g131
Energy Fact - The 2021 Texas power outage was due mainly to natural gas	g205
Energy Fact - Lithium-ion battery costs decline as manufacturing expands	g202
Energy Fact - Solar PV costs decline as manufacturing expands	g201
Energy Fact - The cost of battery has dropped over 500%	g128
Energy Fact - The cost of solar, wind, and battery is rapidly declining	g127
Energy Fact - The gov't is very bad at forecasting solar capacity	g126
Energy Fact - Component costs have made the grid more expensive than local energy	g125
Energy Fact - Comparing Renewable Growth vs Electricity Prices	g124
Energy Fact - Clean Energy Costs Over Time	g123
Energy Fact - US energy tax subsidies	g122
Energy Fact - The Five Orders model of energy tech innovation	g117
Energy Fact - We only have a century of fossil and nuclear fuel reserves	g120
Energy Fact - Renewable Energy Is The Biggest Opportunity In History	g118
Energy Fact - Grid Electricity Will Become More Expensive	g115
Energy Fact - Commercial solar is now cheaper than the grid	g121
Energy Fact - Solar is becoming the cheapest energy source	g119
Energy Fact - The cost of solar cells has dropped 400-times	g116
Energy Fact - Building a residential rooftop solar project is cheaper than grid electricity	g114
Energy Fact - Building a commercial-scale solar project is cheaper than buying from the grid	g112
Energy Fact - The costs for all types of solar projects are declining rapidly	g113
Energy Fact - Solar panels are far less toxic than waste from coal and nuclear plants	g111
Energy Fact - Solar is about to become the cheapest source of electricity	g110
Energy Fact - It is cheaper to build new solar and wind than using fully paid-for coal plants	g109
Energy Fact - Solar, wind, and nat gas are, by far, the cheapest ways to generate electricity	g108
Energy Fact - Solar and wind use 250 times less water than coal and nuclear plants	g107
Energy Fact - Retired solar plants have similar amounts of waste to coal and natural gas	g106
Energy Fact - Comparing CO2, SO2, NOx, and methane across coal, natural gas and biomass	g105
Energy Fact - Comparing land use of solar, wind, coal, nuclear, hydro and biomass	g104
Energy Fact - Fossil fuels and power lines kill more birds than wind turbines	g103
Energy Fact - US per capita electricity consumption is declining	g101
Energy Fact - Solar creates more jobs than all fossil fuels together	g100