October 11, 2021 - The Biden administration is setting ambitious
renewable energy goals and is charting a path toward a clean
power-generation future. To fully realize the potential of the
large amounts of renewable generation that is called for,
regulators and policymakers must ensure that solar and wind
projects can be permitted, that installed capacity reaches markets,
and that installations can be repowered or decommissioned in an
environmentally sound way.
Earlier this month, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL) issued its Solar Futures Study ("Study") to
illuminate a path toward a zero-carbon electric grid. Topline
takeaways from the Study show that achieving a zero-carbon grid by
2050 will require U.S. utilities and solar developers to quadruple
yearly solar capacity installation to achieve 1,000 GW of installed
capacity by 2035 and as much as 3,000 GW by 2050.
