December 31st, 2020 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration
In 2019, U.S. annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time since before 1885, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. This outcome mainly reflects the continued decline in the amount of coal used for electricity generation over the past decade as well as growth in renewable energy, mostly from wind and solar
December 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Going into 2021, CleanTechnica is taking a look at electricity generation changes over the past decade. We have been publishing monthly US power capacity reports and monthly US electricity generation reports for a long time. However
December 21st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Last week, I published an update on US power capacity — new additions as well as total power capacity. The good news was that 100% of new capacity power in October was from renewable sources. The less good news was that only 21.7% of total power capacity is from wind, water, and solar power plants (only counting large-scale solar, not small-scale rooftop solar)
November 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In the first 3 quarters of 2020, while renewable energy accounted for 70% of new power capacity in the country, it still accounted for just 20.4% of total electricity generation in those 9 months
September 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electricity from coal power plants has declined from 26.9% of US electricity generation in the first 7 months of 2018 to 17.7% of US electricity in the first 7 months of 2020. Furthermore, that's down from 33% in 2015, 39% in 2014, 45% in 2010, and 50% in
September 12th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following up on our report on US power capacity additions in the first half of 2020, this article covers electricity generation in the first half of 2020. It splits out electricity generation by source. It also compares those numbers to the same electricity generation split in the first half of 2019 and in the first half of
January 9th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
"Small-scale solar photovoltaics (e.g., rooftop solar systems) alone grew by 19.22% YTD. Compared to all other energy sources, solar-generated electricity has enjoyed the fastest growth rate thus far in 2019." Natural gas generation grew by 6.71%, nuclear energy generation grew by 0.8%, and coal-generated electricity generation declined by 14.46%
July 8th, 2019 | by Joshua S Hill
The United States' Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has apparently "dramatically revised" its three-year forecast for changes in the country's electrical generating capacity mix, according to the SUN DAY Campaign, with sharp declines expected for fossil fuel and nuclear generation offset by even stronger growth in renewable energy.
December 17th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Speaking on Wednesday at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), better known as COP24, the United States doubled-down on its allegiance to the fossil fuel industry and a business-as-usual case, while further espousing a view about its emissions levels that is beginning to bear less and less relation with the truth.
September 19th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
To complement our revival of US electricity capacity reports, here's a new report on US electricity generation.
As with the capacity report, things are not looking too bright. There's still a lot of grey — in the bar charts below, in the skies near fossil fuel power plants, and in the human and planetary outlook based on how slowly we are cutting fossil fuel electricity generation
September 16th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I'm restarting regular US renewable energy reports here on CleanTechnica. However, this time around, I'm making them quarterly reports instead of monthly reports. Quarterly reports are better at capturing the trends, and some other organizations do contribute monthly updates
July 20th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
A new independent assessment by The Brattle Group of US President Donald Trump's plan to bail out the country's coal and nuclear plants has concluded that the cost of such a bailout could balloon to $70 billion over two years.
October 5th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
Renewable energy sources in the United States grew by another 10% in the first half of 2017, according to new figures published by the country's Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong's Sun Day Campaign
February 15th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Accompanying my latest report on US electricity generation capacity, this article covers the latest figures on US electricity generation (that [&hellip
February 15th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Using data from FERC and rooftop solar power estimates of my own*, it seems that 69% of newly installed US [&hellip
April 12th, 2013 | by Tim Tyler
Editor’s note: I write about solar and wind power obsessively, almost every day. Still, FERC’s recent numbers came as a [&hellip
November 7th, 2012 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration
Outages at U.S. nuclear power plants so far in 2012 are generally higher than in recent years because of [&hellip
