By James Morton Turner, an environmental studies professor at Wellesley College and author of the forthcoming book Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. He published the lead op-ed in the journal Science’s special climate change issue two weeks ago (June 24, 2022).
Part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2021 Climate & Clean Energy Developments By Nathanael Greene When it comes to renewable energy, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Clean power just keeps winning and winning in the marketplace. According to the Energy Information Administration, wind and solar power … [continued]
Renewable energy’s contribution to United States electricity supply has been growing for years. In just the past three years, renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation in the first quarter of the year has grown by more than three percentage points, from 18.4% in Q1 2019 to 21.6% in Q1 … [continued]
Renewable energy continues to dominate new power plant capacity and distributed generation has contributed an increasingly large share. In recognition of this, the federal Energy Information Administration is finally going to report estimates of distributed solar power capacity in its monthly updates, a big victory for tracking an individually-small but … [continued]
The generation of electricity from utility-scale solar projects in the United States during June 2015 was 31 times that of the output from utility-scale solar in June 2005, and now accounts for roughly half a percent of all US electricity production, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The … [continued]
Today, Tom Steyer, president and 2013 founder of the NextGen Climate group, challenged American politicians to step up to the plate when it comes to climate change. He called on 2016 US election candidates and current elected officials to address the subject directly and lay out plans to power the US … [continued]
