Solar out-generated coal in the US for the first time. An ex-nuclear engineer added the asterisk (theguardian.com)
An ex-nuclear plant engineer put up the 2025 figures: 389 TWh solar against 1,807 TWh gas. The crossover with coal is real but partly a story of coal plants converting to gas over 20 years, not solar overpowering them.
The optimists had receipts too: solar is already the cheapest energy source, and its learning rate points to it becoming the single largest source on Earth by 2035.
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