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Always struggle getting a sense of scale with these figures. How much generating capacity does the US currently have? Every time I look it up, I get answers that are hard to make sense of.
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Current installed capacity is around 1200 GW across all sources, dominated by gas. www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo...
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Like if you just do a simple google search for how much generating capacity the US has, you get 1.3 million megawatts. If both that number and this chart are correct, it would imply we added one half of all our existing capacity in the last year, and I know that's not correct.
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Feel like I don't understand the units here.