article thumbnail

Three-Quarters of New US Generating Capacity in 2020 Will Be Renewable, EIA Says

GreenTechMedia

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. EIA’s numbers also break records for both wind and solar in terms of annual capacity additions. generation capacity in 2020.

article thumbnail

Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

R-Squared Energy

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). lower than consumption in 2019, and was approximately equivalent to 2012 oil consumption levels. Renewables and Nuclear Power. share of all energy consumption.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How NextEra Overtook ExxonMobil As The Largest U.S. Energy Company

R-Squared Energy

In the process, NextEra became the largest producer of wind and solar power in the world. NextEra’s renewables unit, NextEra Energy Resources, is primarily oriented toward wind power (58% of this unit’s fuel mix) and is the largest generator of wind power in North America. for the S&P 500.

Energy 114
article thumbnail

Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

Year on year our underlying risk of blackouts is actually increasing, and this is because we’re replacing generation we can control – such as gas, coal, and nuclear power stations – with generation that’s dependent on the weather, primarily wind.” Another of her sources, Paul Homewood, has written for the GWPF.

article thumbnail

'Slight tension': From coal mines to nuclear, new Business Secretary hints at delicate decisions at heart of UK's net zero ambitions

Business Green

In a wide-ranging appearance before the BEIS Committee, Kwarteng also defended the government's support for nuclear power, reiterating hopes that Hinkley Point C would come online by 2025 and act as a forerunner for another major nuclear project, as well as a fleet of small modular rectors developed in future.

article thumbnail

The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. The latter category has grown by about 6,500 megawatts since 2012.

Carbon 246
article thumbnail

Mobilising a 'war effort': MPs call on government to go 'further and faster' to bring an end to the fossil fuel age

Business Green

Moreover, the number of energy efficiency upgrades undertaken in the UK peaked in 2012 at 2.3 Cheap wind and solar power are helping to limit bill increases now so a rapid roll out of more can only be positive," she explained. In contrast, fewer than 100,000 upgrades were undertaken in 2021.