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Solar net generation (all sectors) · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated

Solar net generation (all sectors)

US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook, 2018, published 2018

Publishers Envisioning Hype Cycle explorer Forecast vs actual

solar_generation in 2020: 142.369 billion kWh

Source

Verdict

Not graded yet.

What happened: 89.1987 billion kWh (EIA AEO Retrospective)

Forecast error: +53.17 billion kWh

The same forecast in other editions

20073.34852 billion kWh
20084.40357 billion kWh
200918.3904 billion kWh
201018.533 billion kWh
201117.338 billion kWh
201223.8704 billion kWh
201337.1009 billion kWh
201437.9756 billion kWh
201551.2576 billion kWh
201692.5233 billion kWh
201796.0616 billion kWh
2018142.369 billion kWh
2019134.02 billion kWh
2020140.732 billion kWh
2021132.436 billion kWh

All captured fields

series: solar_generation
target year: 2020
value: 142.369
unit: billion kWh
case: Reference
retrospective: AEO Retrospective 2022
table: Table 17
confidence: high

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https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2018-242

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Hindsight, claim eia-aeo-2018-242. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2018-242

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