NEW ENERGY COMING ON

Report: Wind and solar energy have tripled since 2008

Chris Mooney, February 4, 2015 (Washington Post)

“…[T]he country is changing how it uses energy. It’s certainly not enough to silence all environmental concerns. But nonetheless, the progress, when you sample it, is really impressive…[according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s 2015 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook…[T]he report shows that on any number of metrics, progress in clean energy has really been immense…The United States still fell short of China in total clean energy investment last year, but overall investment in this country has been massive…[C]ompared with 2004, investment last year was higher by a factor of five…But overall, energy and economic growth don’t seem to be interacting in the same way they did before…As GDP has increased since 1990, primary energy consumption has not kept pace…[F]rom 2007 to 2014, electricity demand has actually been flat, despite the economic rebound. And over the same time period, overall carbon emissions coming from the energy sector declined by nine percent…And the renewable energy story keeps getting better…[In 2007,] renewable energy provided just seven percent of the nation’s total energy. By 2014 it had nearly doubled to 13 percent (estimated)…And as this has happened, wind and solar have become increasingly cost-competitive…” click here for more

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