Energy facts - Freeing Energy

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

Renewable energy is the cheapest way to generate electricity

The cost of solar dropped 86% in 10 years

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 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

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

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

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 - Cost of LED lighting dropped 15-times as volume increases	g213
Energy Fact - By 2040 solar will be the cheapest way to generate electricity	g211
Energy Fact - The cost of solar dropped 86% from 2010 to 2020	g210
Energy Fact - US weather-related outages between 2000 and 2020	g206
Energy Fact - Residential solar installations create the most jobs per megawatt	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 - The cost of batteries decline as manufacturing capacities increase	g202
Energy Fact - Solar PV costs decline as manufacturing expands	g201
Energy Fact - The cost of batteries is 8-times lower than 2010	g128
Energy Fact - The cost of solar, wind, and battery is rapidly declining	g127
Energy Fact - The government 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