This week Berkley Lab published an update on state clean electricity standards. That’s a topic for another day as it will take a bit of homework to summarize the findings.
As part of the data, Berkley included a spreadsheet on retail electricity sales projections. Given all the press about how AI and data centers are going to cause a spike in electricity demand, I thought it would be interesting to look at the data.
The presentation summarizes which states have experienced the highest and lowest electricity demand from 2000 to 2023, and which ones are projected to have the highest and lowest growth rates by 2050.
Is the utility sector prepared to handle the growth in demand? And what may be the most essential element to accommodating the simultaneous growth in demand and renewables?
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