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Renewables and Energy Storage Have Arrived, Offering Consumers Significant Savings

Renewable energy power plants – photovoltaics, wind turbine farm and battery container. 3D rendering. (AdobeStock_248626760/malp)

Jonathan Dowds

We all know that renewable energy is the future. But recently something interesting happened: the future arrived.

It’s not all the way here – we are still getting far too much energy from […]

Renewables Survive Hurricane Ian!

Beating a Hurricane with Solar and Batteries!

The community of Babcock Ranch, just outside of Fort Myers, FL, never lost power when hurrcane Ian deevasted the area. (FPL)

George Harvey

The sun doesn’t always shine, but so what?

Hurricane Ian didn’t prevent solar power and batteries from providing electricity 24/7 […]

Record Amounts of New Renewable Capacity Are Being Added

Solar array on a Massachusetts landfill. (Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection (bit.ly/3teSkhF). CC-BY-SA 2.0. (bit.ly/3Nn399B).

George Harvey

Both in the United States and in the rest of the world, record amounts of renewable capacity are coming online. There were still increases in carbon emissions in 2021, including from coal-burning power plants, […]

Nuclear Power Won’t Save the World

It Won’t Even Help

San Onofre nuclear plant (awnisALAN, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

Originally published at Green Energy Times.

By George Harvey

An old paradigm

The electricity most of us use comes from a system that was designed mostly over a hundred years ago. It was built around concepts […]

NEWS UPDATE: Electrical Generation by Renewable Energy Exceeded 20% in 2020 and Grew Faster Than All Other Sources; Renewables Out-Produced Both Coal & Nuclear and Narrowed the Gap with Natural Gas

SUN DAY CAMPAIGN RENEWABLES TOP 20% OF U.S. ELECTRICAL GENERATION IN 2020 AND OUTPERFORMED COAL & NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION BY SOLAR + WIND WAS 17% MORE THAN A YEAR EARLIER INCREASE IN SOLAR & WIND GENERATED ELECTRICITY MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OF NATURAL GAS Washington DC — Electrical generation by U.S. wind and solar […]

Renewable Energy Provides All New US Generating Capacity in April – Forecast to Add Almost 50x More Than Coal, Oil, Gas & Nuclear Over Next Three Years

SUN DAY CAMPAIGN

LATEST FERC DATA SHOW RENEWABLES ARE SOLE SOURCE OF NEW U.S. GENERATING CAPACITY IN APRIL

RENEWABLES ARE 56.3% OF NEW CAPACITY IN 1ST THIRD OF 2020

OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, RENEWABLES WILL ADD OVER 53,000-MW OF NEW CAPACITY

WIND AND SOLAR WILL EACH PROVIDE […]

Renewables Taxation 101 Educational Event in Concord, NH

When: Thursday May 23, 9am-12pm Where: UNH School of Law Room 200, 2 White Street, Concord NH Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renewable-energy-taxation-101-tickets-60485759535

Join Clean Energy NH for an in-depth forum featuring experts in state and federal renewable energy taxation, successful development, […]

1st Q.’18 – Wind Outpaces Hydropower; Solar Doubles Oil-Generated Electricity

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Brief News Update

1st Quarter 2018:

RENEWABLES REACH 19.2% OF U.S. ELECTRICAL GENERATION

AS NON-HYDRO RENEWABLES INCREASE BY 13.4%

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Renewables Provide 61.5% of New U.S. Generating Capacity in 2016

Second Year In A Row: NEW RENEWABLE ELECTRICAL CAPACITY EXCEEDS THAT FROM GAS, COAL, OIL, AND NUCLEAR COMBINED. RENEWABLE SOURCES NOW ALMOST ONE-FIFTH OF THE NATION’S TOTAL GENERATING CAPACITY. Contact: Ken Bossong, 301-270-6477 x.11 Washington DC – According to the latest issue of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” (released today […]

GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF CLEAN ENERGY STANDARD THAT MANDATES 50 PERCENT RENEWABLES BY 2030

First-ever State Mandate will More than Double Renewable Resources, Slash Carbon Emissions, Protect the Environment and Grow the Clean Energy Economy.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the New York State Public Service Commission’s approval of New York’s Clean Energy Standard, the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state’s history, to fight […]