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Energy Predictions 2025 – Casey Handmer's blog

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It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy, so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed specific posts on energy are here. If you want to work on the future of energy, we’re hiring for a wide range of opportunities at Terraform Industries. The US consumes about 100 quadrillion BTUs of energy per year. Of this, about 80 start life as coal, oil or gas, and roughly a third of the energy mix serves the electrical grid. Less than 1% is food, reflecting our enormous energy wealth in comparison to our pre-industrial forebears. We’re in the middle of a period of rapid transition. Much will be much clearer in retrospect. This is how I think it will shake out. Solar is decosting at an accelerating rate. The production-weighted learning rate is 48%! Module cost falling up to 20% per year, twice what it was five years ago. Coal is shrinking. Nuclear is flat. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to see which way the wind is blowing. Solar power production will loc

Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy, so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed specific posts on energy are here . If you want to work on the future of energy, we’re hiring for a wide range of opportunities at Terraform Industries . Current fuel mix and uses The US consumes about 100 quadrillion BTUs of energy per year. Of this, about 80 start life as coal, oil or gas, and roughly a third of the energy mix serves the electrical grid. Less than 1% is food, reflecting our enormous energy wealth in comparison to our pre-industrial fo

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