We’re doing a great job of creating renewable energy—but we don’t have the infrastructure to actually use it
Better storage batteries and the framework to support them is key.
By Amal Ahmed January 18, 2018
Wind and solar energy production in the US has been increasing, slowly but surely.
Last week, some rare positive environmental news reached the public eye: Nearly half of all the new, large-scale electric power generation installed last year use renewable energy sources, according to the Energy Information Administration. The government agency reports that of the total 25 gigawatts of capacity installed in 2017, about 12 gigawatts of that amout came from clean energy—plus an extra 3.5 gigawatts of small-scale solar, like rooftop panels.
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