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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand. This was despite a decline in nuclear output. Renewable energy generated a fifth of U.S.

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Ameren Missouri Looks to Harness Wind, Solar and Batteries With $7.6B ‘Smart Energy Plan’

GreenTechMedia

gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth. Hydropower provides about 800 megawatts, and its only solar facility, the O’Fallon Renewable Energy Center, has a 5.7-megawatt About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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The US electric power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions

Renewable Energy World

We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S. It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020. All require more research.

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New Report Shows Gap Between Utility Carbon Pledges and Climate Change Imperatives

GreenTechMedia

utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5