{"id":165687,"date":"2023-06-13T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/renewables-surpass-new-nuclear-reactor-in-capacity-growth-utility-scale-solar-and-wind-outpace-vogtle-3-in-q1-of-2023"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:25:50","slug":"renewables-surpass-new-nuclear-reactor-in-capacity-growth-utility-scale-solar-and-wind-outpace-vogtle-3-in-q1-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/renewables-surpass-new-nuclear-reactor-in-capacity-growth-utility-scale-solar-and-wind-outpace-vogtle-3-in-q1-of-2023","title":{"rendered":"Renewables surpass new nuclear reactor in capacity growth: Utility-scale solar and wind outpace Vogtle-3 in Q1 of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/renewables-surpass-new-nuclear-reactor-in-capacity-growth-utility-scale-solar-and-wind-outpace-vogtle-3-in-q1-of-20232.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based upon a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), utility-scale solar and wind have apparently each added more new electrical generating capacity during the first four months of 2023 than the new Vogtle-3 nuclear reactor that just came on-line after nearly 14 years of construction and major cost overruns.<\/p>\n<p>FERC had earlier reported in its monthly \u201cEnergy Infrastructure Update\u201d report for December 2022 that installed U.S. utility-scale solar generating capacity had reached 80,400 megawatts (MW) by the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, in its most recent report, with data through April 30, 2023, FERC cites 85,790-MW of installed solar generating capacity\u2026 and that does not include new small-scale distributed PV systems. Meanwhile, FERC listed 143,280-MW of installed wind generating capacity at the end of 2022 but, four months later, that figure had been increased to 146,900-MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based upon a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), utility-scale solar and wind have apparently each added more new electrical generating capacity during the first four months of 2023 than the new Vogtle-3 nuclear reactor that just came on-line after nearly 14 years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}