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More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers

Renewable Energy World

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. This dramatic expansion of wind and solar has been driven by precipitously falling costs. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Comment: Europe’s struggle to understand energy economics

Envirotec Magazine

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. But as soon as demand outstrips the capacity of these low-cost producers, prices jump to the price bid by gas-fired generators, which depends largely on the price of natural gas. Source: IEA).

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In North Carolina, falling costs of clean energy make strange bedfellows

Renewable Energy World

For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms. To help counteract that reality, the state adopted a mandate for both renewable energy and energy efficiency in 2007. Large solar fields have plunged 90%. . New competition for natural gas.

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