40% of US electricity is now emissions-free

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40% of US electricity is now emissions-free
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And yet, after many decades of solar, wind construction. It is the energy source in that pie chart that is sizeable (just as much as all wind and solar) and extremely stable (probably for the last 50 years), without any major construction in the past 30 years minimum.

Wind/solar only ramped up in the last 10 years, not decades. That's when they got cheap. Really cheap. It's nuclear that had a huge head start.

To be fair, Plant Vogtle just turned on Unit 3 earlier this year and Unit 4 should be coming soon.