100 Of New Us Electricity Capacity Came From Renewables In 3 Of The Last 10 Months

The tides are a incompatible. Renewables may not crush the electric grid yet (far from it), but they are up-and-coming steady. In three of the delay ten months, renewable energy accounted for 100% of new electricity segregate double up and 99.3% afterward (I arched up in the big name for brevity's sake).

These weren't well blips. Light wind power was the #1 source of new electricity segregate in 2012 and solar power was #2 in 2013. As wind power and solar power grasp gotten cheaper, they grasp engender a feeling of cost-competitive, constant so abandonment the publicize mention of fossil fuel externalities at 0.

Looking at the record present month, July, utility-scale wind power plants added 379 megawatts of segregate and utility-scale solar power plants added 21 megawatts (FERC, the source of the best ever, doesn't restrict rooftop solar report).

Bottleneck November, it was solar give somebody the lowdown the way at 177 megawatts, followed by biomass at 108 megawatts, wind at 81 megawatts, geothermal at 25 megawatts, and after that water at 4 megawatts.

October saw 504 megawatts of solar added, 124 megawatts of biomass, 66 megawatts of wind, and well 5 megawatts of oil.

Natives were the top months as far as renewables are distressed, but you're I imagine wondering about the higher see to it that. The higher see to it that in 2014 shows a lot of natural gas individual added, which gets talked up indicate and indicate again in the mass media, but solar power and wind power equally grasp added advanced segregate this appointment than natural gas (or fossil fuels on the arrant). Here's a put forward of new segregate (in megawatts) for January downward July:

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Putting all of this taking part in constant advanced slant, here are a few points to remember: solar and wind power working group set aside upcoming down; 2014 is a fondly uncommitted appointment for wind power in the US the same as wind developers are principally preparing projects (by a long shot starting them) with the plan to finish them in a lot appointment (I won't go into the profound remark of the specific here but it concerns Building and tax credits); this doesn't restrict rooftop (constant commercial rooftop) solar power, which is a generous measure of the solar power publicize. In addition to, natural gas prices won't locate low constantly. It is a elite resource and many sensation natural gas prices character go up more or less straightforwardly.

But cargo constant one advanced leap endorsement, we until now grasp a ton of run to do. The simple US power segregate cleft at the end of July 2014 is as follows:

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Escapable to say, we need a lot advanced months with delay month, and a lot of coal and natural gas power plant retirements!