{"id":191313,"date":"2024-06-16T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/us-hits-180-gw-of-solar-power-heres-how-we-get-to-1000-by-2035"},"modified":"2024-06-16T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:23:29","slug":"us-hits-180-gw-of-solar-power-heres-how-we-get-to-1000-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/us-hits-180-gw-of-solar-power-heres-how-we-get-to-1000-by-2035","title":{"rendered":"US hits 180 GW of solar power. Here\u2019s how we get to 1,000 by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-hits-180-gw-of-solar-power-heres-how-we-get-to-1000-by-20352.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collectively, the US\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seia.org\/5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 million solar installations<\/a> can generate more than 179 gigawatts (GW) of electricity. Based on current trends, the SEIA claims that the US\u2019s total solar capacity will soar to 673 GW by 2034, providing enough electricity to power 100 million homes.<\/p>\n<p>The US will likely need to do better than that to meet the Biden Administration\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-05\/DOE%20-%20100%25%20Clean%20Electricity%20-%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100% clean electricity by 2035<\/a>, though. To decarbonize the grid by then, the Department of Energy (DoE) expects we\u2019ll need as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-06\/Solar%20Energy%20Technologies%20Office%202021%20Multi-Year%20Program%20Plan%2006-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 <em>terawatt <\/em>(1,000 GWs) of solar capacity<\/a>, enough for solar to meet 30\u201350% of the US\u2019s electricity demand by itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collectively, the US\u2019s 5 million solar installations can generate more than 179 gigawatts (GW) of electricity. Based on current trends, the SEIA claims that the US\u2019s total solar capacity will soar to 673 GW by 2034, providing enough electricity to power 100 million homes. The US will likely need to do better than that to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191313","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}