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The growing clean energy backlog, in five charts

By District Energy posted 11 days ago

  

Canary Media

Summary

For the past four years, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been tracking a major threat to the U.S. clean energy transition: the backups and bottlenecks in connecting proposed solar, wind, and battery projects to the electricity grid.

LBNL’s team laid out its latest findings in a recent webinar. The overarching takeaway is that clean power plants can supply enough near-term electricity to avoid building new fossil-gas-fired power plants or keeping coal plants open longer — but only if something is done about the grid backlog.

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