Wind

“How long does it take for sources to go from a hundred terawatt hours to a size like 2000 terawatt hours? And if you look historically, no source has ever made that jump as quickly as solar has. Right behind it is wind with just a few more years.”

“It was the second fastest growing source and just over 200 terawatt hours, so made up a huge amount of the increase in demand.”

“We're going to need nuclear. Wind is not going to be enough. Solar is not going to be enough. Let's just all acknowledge that we'll take it. We'll take everything we can. But the fact that matters, I think for the next decade, natural gas, you know, is probabl…”

“Talking with our member companies who have low-cost resources that they're ready to build, You know, whether it's large-scale wind, solar, storage, and the like, and they're not able to deploy, right? They are tangled in red tape, they are stuck in line”

“If you look back to 1800, even biomass today is used more than it was in the 1800. Oil is used more. Gas, coal, everything is used more. And solar and wind were simply additive.”

“Nuclear is so obviously, so clearly the best climate solution that you could find, right? So if you care about the fact that we're putting more CO two in the, you know, in the atmosphere every single year, and you look at all the options, you know, options tha…”

“So last year more than 90% of new energy in the U.S. Came from solar, wind, and batteries. So we're already heavily transitioned to solar. In the first two months of this year, 98% of our new energy came from solar and wind.”

“If you have solar wind at 25 dollars a megawatt hour today, which is feasible, those are good wind and solar projects, but maybe not even the best And you take that, that's with the ITC or PTC in the case of wind, and you take away that subsidy, you probably g…”

“At 25 dollars a megawatt hour, you are less than the marginal cost of natural gas generation. So you can build those wind and solar resources solely at, and you'll make money solely off the avoided cost of burning gas at existing natural gas power plants. Wher…”

“It turns out that it's the cooling effect of wind that actually has the biggest impact on the capacity of the line, and so understanding wind at a really accurate hyperlocal level allows us to understand what that true capacity is”

“Solar and wind, which is where we're Which is what's filling the gap are the lowest cost energy sources for power in the world in most countries today.”

“Solar is just on its way up. You know, it's more than forty billion dollars in the trail in 12 months. And storage now invests more than wind does in the States.”

“You know this year, we're probably gonna have more solar installed in toto, cumulative, than wind.”

“I think the second thing is indeed to what extent we keep underestimating the speed at which solar and batteries to some extent also wind, but to a less extent have achieved cost savings and actually are deployed.”

“PV and wind are pretty much everywhere in the world, intermittently cheaper than any other form humans have ever had available, including burning fuel.”

“People often say, like, the wind is always blowing somewhere, but that only matters if you have the transmission lines to move wind from one place to another.”

“So that's why it's so important that, you know, it's not going to be all nuclear, all solar, all wind, or all natural gas, because there are situations where pipes freeze and so it becomes very, very complex and it's not as simple as, you know, just connect as…”

“And though we're seeing some convergence, there is, we are seeing some sign that buyers are more comfortable with the existing technologies that That they have seen in the past, like wind and solar, than they may be with some of the new technology types”

“So solar is probably going to make up about two-thirds of the target here, and solar is just the least cost resource in many areas of the world, so it will continue to dominate. Solar and wind together will make up about 92% of this tripling target, but solar …”

“So the pretty troubling one is wind, where investment and announcements in new wind capacity have been declining for the past two years.”

“I think one of the advantages we have today is that we have more solar and wind and energy storage installed. You know, the industries are more mature, and I think that has caught, that has built the political support for industrial policy.”

“Geothermal has a Tiny footprint compared to other renewables. It doesn't rely on a massive amount of rare earth mining like you know, like, for instance, wind and solar production and storage production.”

“In fact, the intermittency and storage issues associated with renewables like solar and wind have largely been addressed in recent years.”

“Solar is cheap enough now that in most places, Solar and wind, I should say. Most places it is true today that if a utility or somebody issues an open RFP and just says, I want the cheapest power I can get, like, give me the cheapest kilowatt hours, the respon…”

“Land, I think, will become a big one. Kind of no matter how you slice it in terms of what the big swaths of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation Solutions are going to be. They're going to be pretty land intensive. Solar and wind obviously are very land intensi…”

“I don't think that solves long periods of no wind, no solar, but it certainly has to help for lots of things.”

“Wind and solar are the cheapest resource for electricity nearly everywhere around the world.”