Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. This month is 11 years that solar has sat quietly on my roof

and generated power for my home. Since 2018 (the year I sold my last gas car) it has provided 100% of my heating, cooling, lights, cooking, and transportation. My utility currently pays me a monthly fee to periodically tap my batteries to balance the grid during times of high demand.

This is not the future, this is now.

And yet I talk to people daily who treat solar as impractical, dirty, and/or dangerous. My amortized cost of electricity over the expected life expectancy of my array (25 years) is 5¢/kWh, about 1/3 the current rate from my utility. Based on the current average MPG for ICE cars, I am paying slightly over 45¢/gallon to drive.

Solar works
Heat pumps work
EVs work.

Anyone who tells you different is doing the bidding (knowingly or unknowingly) of Big Oil.