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To: Brumar89 who wrote (75979)	4/10/2017 8:18:38 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

2 watts of excess heating per sq mtr on the Earth due to man's dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. It adds up. A very, very large number. Trillions of BTU's per second.. I'll let you be the frog in the frying pan..... And it's very, very far from natural!

To: Brumar89 who wrote (75979)	4/10/2017 9:33:59 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Fossil Fuels Renewables and Efficiency Are Eating Away at America’s Fossil Fuel Demand Change is afoot in U.S. power markets. by Stephen Lacey April 10, 2017 America's energy transition is no longer theoretical. Wind and solar are increasingly the lowest-cost resources getting connected to the grid, changing the investment calculus for utilities and dominating new capacity builds. Electricity demand nationwide continues to fall, even as millions more square feet of buildings are constructed. And in states across the country, distributed solar is decimating load growth. These trends are adding up. In fact, renewables and efficiency together will cut the equivalent of 2 billion cubic feet of fossil fuel demand per day by 2020. The chart below comes from Prajit Gosh, the head of Americas power and renewables research at Wood Mackenzie. In the next five years, gross fossil fuel demand is expected to rise by 4-5 billion cubic feet per day. However, net demand -- gross demand minus efficiency and non-dispatchable wind and solar -- turns the trend around. Largely driven by lighting standards and other state mandates, efficiency alone will cut fossil fuel demand increases by half. Factor wind into the mix, and demand enters negative territory. And together, efficiency, wind and solar will likely eliminate a couple billion cubic feet of fossil fuel consumption per day. That change is playing out in regional power markets across the U.S. In every single market, there's a clear decline in coal consumption. And in a majority of markets, there's an equal positive change in gas and renewables consumption. According to a recent report from Moody's, cheap wind alone is putting 56,000 megawatts of coal plants at risk -- even without any additional federal regulatory pressure. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Renewables-Are-Squeezing-Fossil-Fuel-Demand Want to learn more about how these markets are changing? Come join us for GTM's first annual U.S. Power & Renewables Conference in November. You'll get an in-depth look at how the renewable energy market will interact with the U.S. power market, and how those interactions can impact overall industry development and market growth. Curated by GTM Research and Wood Mackenzie energy analysts, we’ll take an expansive view of key issues and timely topics, bringing together a diverse group of energy experts and stakeholders to discuss demand dynamics, economics and business model shifts, and policy and regulatory implications.