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Global solar energy installations reached 599 gigawatts in 2023.
Global wind energy installations exceeded 130 gigawatts in 2023, a record year for the sector.
Investment in the U.S. solar sector exceeded $40 billion in the trailing 12 months, according to data from Rhodium Group.
California experienced over 750 gigawatt-hours of solar energy curtailment in a single month.
In 2024, California's aggregate net load (total demand minus intermittent generation) was negative for the entire spring season.
The number of hours with negative electricity prices in Europe increased from approximately 550 in 2022 to over 9,000 in 2023, according to Pexapark data.
Current NERC forecasts for U.S. electricity load growth have revised upwards to over a 1% ten-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
The DeepSeek v3 AI model achieved results comparable to Meta's Llama 3.1 using fewer than 2.8 million training hours, a roughly 10x improvement over Llama's nearly 31 million hours.
The DeepSeek AI model is reportedly about 30 times more efficient for inference tasks compared to previous models.
Microsoft's CEO has indicated the company is prepared to spend $80 billion on its "Stargate" plan for building data centers in the U.S.
The U.S. built only 125 miles of high-voltage transmission (345 kV and up) in 2023, a sharp decline from the 3,200 miles built in 2013.
In 2023, China exported 6.4 million vehicles, including 5.5 million passenger cars and 2 million electric vehicles.