Fascinating new EIA data
South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just Wind-Water-Solar for the full year Oct 1 '23-Sep 30 '24
77.5% Wind 30.1% Water 2.2% Solar
Also produced 16.8% gas, 11.7% coal
So SD produced 138% of demand, exporting 38%
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/Countries100Pct.pdf
Cool, except that it’s South Dakota.
Yeah, they have like, what, five light bulbs there?
On a good day.
He also posted a list of the top 10 states by electricity demand met by renewables (Which is also in the linked pdf).
There’s also a list of countries by renewables percentage, but it’s from 2021:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production