Comments on: US Renewable Energy Generation Up In First Half Of 2013 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/28/us-renewable-energy-generation-up-in-first-half-of-2013/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 06:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Matt http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/28/us-renewable-energy-generation-up-in-first-half-of-2013/#comment-179011 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55735#comment-179011 If you look at YTD 2013 compared to 2011 (Change are in millions Megawatt hours):
~Flat: Nuclear, Other Gas, and Total
Down: Coal (100, 11%), Petro Liq (2, 22%), Petro coke(1, 14%), Big Hydro(30, 17%)
Up: NG gas(71, 13%), other renew(31, 31%)

-Snow pack and spring rains down in big hydro areas.
-Need to make the push for efficiency, low hanging fruit. Plus it makes the Renew worth even more.
-We have a good start, now got really ramp up the renew. Deploy baby, deploy!
-Also notice the big jump in NG in 2012, and then the drop back in 2013.

]]> By: JimBouton http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/28/us-renewable-energy-generation-up-in-first-half-of-2013/#comment-178895 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55735#comment-178895 “As seen above, other renewables provided 131,456 MWhours for the first six months of 2013, equalling just over * 6.7% * of the nation’s energy generation.” It’s 14% when you include hydroelectric.

There is simply no excuse for us not to be above 30% renewables with all of the wind and solar resources we have in this country by 2020.

One definite upside is that we don’t seem to be increasing the amount of electricity that we need overall. I remember a decade ago about plans to build 300 nuclear power plants.

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