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powergrid this year. GW (17%) from wind additions. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclearpower plant in Georgia. EIA said it expects 46.1 GW of new utility-scale generating capacity to be added to the U.S.
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