The US government keeps spectacularly underestimating solar energy installation
From Qz
The only thing certain in this life are death, taxes and the US department of energy’s massive underestimate of renewable energy capacity.Read more: https://qz.com/1103874/the-us-government-underestimated-solar-energy-installation-in-the-us-by-4813-along-with-renewable-wind-and-solar-generation/Every two years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), America’s official source for energy statistics, issues 10-year projections about how much solar, wind and conventional energy the future holds for the US. Every two years, since the mid-1990s, the EIA’s projections turn out to be wrong. Last year, they proved spectacularly wrong.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, and Statista recently teamed up to analyze the EIA’s predictions for energy usage and production. They found that the EIA’s 10-year estimates between 2006 to 2016 systematically understated the share of wind, solar and gas. Solar capacity, in particular, was a whopping 4,813% more in 2016 than the EIA had predicted in 2006 it would be.
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Yup what a joke, the governments can come up with statistics to try and justify anthing . Especially when their giant energy cartel comes into question . Great post thanks for sharing .
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@contentjunkie, nice post and this is very good. Keep up the good work
At least they didnt miss by much.....
Amazing how anyone still puts any stock in any numbers the government puts out. They are all speculation, guesses, myths, and outright lies.
At the end of the day, the government knows little about what is going on especially technology.
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