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Solar & Wind = 53% Of New US Electricity Capacity In 2014
Originally published on the ECOreport.
Pretty good for energy sources that supposedly can't work at all. lol
Originally published on the ECOreport.
It has been 37 years since Dr Allan Hoffman gave President Jimmy Carter the plan that could have started America’s renewable revolution. The idea was shelved after Reagan was elected. Hoffman waited, as administration after administration ignored the potential, until Barack Obama was elected. The retired senior Department of Energy executive views the growth of US renewables during 2014 as a vindication of what he and his colleagues saw decades ago. Solar & wind = 53% of new US electricity capacity in 2014.
CleanTechnica estimates that 54.9% of the installations made in December came from these two sectors and 53.3% of the installations for the year as a whole.
Pretty good for energy sources that supposedly can't work at all. lol