Widely Use Of Renewable Energy, First Time In The US History

This April, renewables have been put to the test like by no means before. For the first time in United States history, clean energy sources shouldered more of the nation’s electricity needs than coal. Monthly report from the Energy Information Administration reveals that renewables comparable to wind, solar, and hydroelectric dams offered 23 % of the month’s electricity, whereas coal provided solely 20 %. The difference boils down to roughly 8.5 million megawatt-hours less of fossil fuel-driven power. It is also the least quantity of coal the US has burned in over a decade. The accomplishment has some counting down the years till coal is a factor of the past. A current report revealed simply after April, famous that previously three years alone, the variety of coal-fired power plants being developed all over the world has plummeted. Even in the US, where President Donald Trump has promised to bring back coal, 50 such plants have closed since the last presidential election. Combined with the reducing cost of renewables and the rapid spread of ‘clean’ technology, the general pattern is sufficient to turn our energy system on its head. Nonetheless, the month of April was marked by some uncommon events which helped set the stage for this major milestone.