The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently published a special short profile on New York’s renewable energy leadership and split. What I found particularly interesting in the piece, though, was the variation in renewable energy splits in the different top states.
This report ranks US states according to the percentage of their electricity that comes from solar.
After digging into an old spreadsheet to create a new report on top solar power states per capita, it crossed my mind to compare the results from the first half of 2020 with the results from 2012, which is the last time I had published such a report before today.
If you’ve been reading CleanTechnica long enough, you know that 8 to 10 years ago, I used to publish reports on solar power capacity per capita — for both US states and countries around the world. I’m returning to these, starting with this one on the top solar states.
YAKIMA, Wash., August 31, 2020 – Yakima Chief Hops (YCH), a 100% farmer owned hop supplier for the brewing industry, has announced their latest solar panel installation for a total of 3,706 solar panels, the largest rooftop solar array in Washington state.
The US solar industry group SEPA could be building the case for federal legislation leading to a new national standard for solar incentives…or not.
In a recent blog, I looked into two bills currently circling the halls of Washington state government that could effectively kill solar leasing and neuter the state’s successful net metering program. The article must have struck a nerve, because the author and sponsors of the bills responded with incredulity, spin, … [continued]
Washington has long been regarded as one of the bluest of blue states, a laboratory of progressive policy. A little more than two years ago, voters in the state approved a ballot measure to make it one of only two to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. But a bill recently … [continued]
If you missed any of our own renewable energy stories, of course, I recommend reading them first. However, if you’ve gone through all of those and want to skim some more top stories, here’s a list I’ve compiled in the past two weeks: Renewables, in General 6 Charts That Show … [continued]
