The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) newest stock of electrical turbines exhibits 15 GW of recent utility-scale electrical producing capability got here on-line within the United States throughout the first half of 2022. Based on probably the most lately reported plans, builders may add one other 29 GW of capability within the second half of the yr.
Wind technology accounts for the most important share, 34%, of the 15.1 GW of capability that got here on-line, adopted by pure fuel, solar and battery storage. More than 40% of the wind capability added to date in 2022 is positioned in Texas: 2.2 GW of the 5.2 GW wind whole.
The largest renewable tasks that got here on-line within the first six months of 2022 embrace the 999 MW Traverse Wind Project in Oklahoma, the 492 MW Maverick Creek Wind in Texas, and the 440 MW solar and battery storage undertaking at Slate Hybrid in California.
Developers and undertaking planners report plans so as to add 29.4 GW of recent capability within the second half of 2022. Nearly half of that deliberate capability is from solar (13.6 GW), adopted by wind (6 GW). As in earlier years, many tasks plan to return on-line in December due to tax incentives.
Respondents to EIA’s survey at the moment plan so as to add 3.7 GW much less solar capability in 2022 than what that they had anticipated originally of the yr. Pandemic-related challenges in provide chains and a U.S. Department of Commerce tariff investigation are possible causes for this lower.
Of the 15.1 GW of electrical producing capability that U.S. operators plan to retire throughout 2022, greater than half (8.8 GW) was retired within the first half of the yr. Coal-fired power crops will account for 76% of the retirements this yr, adopted by pure fuel (12%) and nuclear (9%). The largest U.S. coal power plant retirements in 2022 embrace the 1,305 MW William H. Zimmer plant in Ohio, which retired in May, and the 1,205 MW Morgantown Generating Station in Maryland, which retired in June. In addition, the 769 MW Palisades nuclear power facility in Michigan retired in June.
