CleanTechnica » Green Tech Media http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Solar Growth Beat Out Natural Gas In First Half Of 2014 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/11/solar-growth-beat-natural-gas-first-half-2014/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/11/solar-growth-beat-natural-gas-first-half-2014/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:40:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71835 New figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released earlier this week concluded that natural gas leads solar in terms of new power plant capacity — a fact that is indisputable, but a fact that doesn’t tell the whole story. According to Greentech Media, which spend a lot of time closely tracking the various energy

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