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It will again eventually, will just take more time than it otherwise would've taken.

https://electrek.co/2026/03/25/eia-new-solar-wind-storage-ca...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-tak...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/were-harvesting-t...

https://www.brightsaver.org/publicly-filed-states

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I'd argue it already is. Only 7% of electricity generating capacity being added in 2026 will be natural gas.

> Solar power makes up 51% of the planned 2026 capacity additions, followed by battery storage at 28% and wind at 14%.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67205

We can go faster, as China demonstrates (~400GW of renewables deployed annually), and as someone who believes in climate change, I personally would like to go as fast as physics will allow.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi...

https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-is-planning-decades-ahead...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1119941/china-en...

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202601/30/cont...

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