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[ShadowSwordmaster]

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has published figures showing that solar and wind together provided a majority of new capacity during the first quarter of 2017.

Published this week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update for March (PDF) shows that, across the first three months of the year, solar and wind installed 2,418 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity — 1,479 megawatts (MW) for wind and 939 MW for solar. Interestingly, the American Wind Energy Association published its first quarter figures this week as well, and revealed that the wind industry installed 2,000 MW of new capacity, though where the discrepancy lies between the two figures is uncertain.

According to FERC, this means that natural gas’ total percentage of US energy capacity is up to 43.21%, followed by coal at 24.25%, which continues the respective trends for both energy sources.

Wind accounts for 7.12% of the country’s total energy capacity, while solar accounts for 2.17%. Renewable sources as a single source, including biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind, now account for 19.51% of the country’s cumulative total capacity.

It will be interesting to see what the percentage will look like in a couple of years.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/03/us-wind-solar-provide-majority-q1-new-generating-capacity/

 

[yanipheonu]

But the coal tho.

 

[adamy]

USA, USA, USA!

 

[O_Atoll]

Let's tear it all down. Coal is in baby.

 

[plagiarize]

Good. Fortunately I think solar and wind have become cheap enough (and profitable enough) now that this ship isn't going to turn back around.

 

[Volimar]

"Only the beginning," - Tony Sta...er I mean Elon Musk

 

[timetokill]

The natural processes of the world are taking our jobs!!

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

The natural processes of the world are taking our jobs!!

I saw the edit.