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Title    Half of All New Energy Capacity in the US This Year is Renewable
Date    Wednesday July 23 2014, @01:35AM
Author    zizban
Topic   
from the green-surge dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/07/22/1426219

gewg_ writes:

Alternet reports

According to the latest Energy Infrastructure Update [PDF] from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, solar and wind energy constituted more than half of the new generating capacity in the country for the first half of 2014. Solar and wind energy combined for 1.83 gigawatts (GW) of the total 3.53 GW installed from January to June.

This despite the fact that Congress let tax credits for renewable energy expire in 2012.

Links
  1. "reports" - http://www.alternet.org/environment/renewables-account-more-half-2014s-new-us-energy-capacity#main-content
  2. "Energy Infrastructure Update" - http://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2014/jun-infrastructure.pdf
  3. "Solar" - http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/06/states-solar-energy-monumental-year/
  4. "wind" - http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/07/wind-energys-rise-milestone/
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