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
June 20th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Other than our dozens and dozens of stories and our other news roundups, here are some more noteworthy cleantech [&hellip
March 13th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
A nuclear energy industry veteran, Peter Bradford, recently wrote a strongly worded and pointed article on nuclear energy policy in [&hellip
