Why are you still distorting basic facts ?Oilpan4 said:The IEA says that the US has 60 billion watts of PV installed as of 3rd Q of 2018.
2018 started with 55 billion wattts, so average that to 57 billion watts for all of 2018?
That 57ish billion watts made 1.2% of all the power generated in the US.
Stop confusing national PV capacity with utility scale PV
As of 1/2019 utility scale PV was ~ 31 GW
https://www.seia.org/research-resources/major-solar-projects-list
About 6 GW of utility scale PV was installed in both 2017 and 2018
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/us-residential-and-utility-scale-solar-see-installations-fall-first-time#gs.AMC3sBMh
So 1/1/17 PV utility capacity was 19 GW
1/1/18 PV utility capacity was 25 GW
Average 2017 PV capacity was ~ 21 GW (more installations later in the year)
PV was 1.3% of total US utility generation in 2017
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
~ 63% of 2017 total US electricity generation was from fossils.
And now .... drum roll ... some arithmetic:
(63/1.3)*21 GW = 1.017 TW for replacement of current fossils consumed by US utilities for electricity by PV