Thursday, October 05, 2017

Solar Energy Boom Sets New Records, Shattering Expectations

Overall, clean energy sources accounted for two-thirds of new electricity capacity worldwide in 2016, a new report says.


U.S. solar power capacity doubled from 2015 to 2016, reaching a total of almost 40 gigawatts, but most of the global growth was in China. (Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Click to Enlarge.
Driven largely by a boom in solar power, renewable energy expansion has hit record-breaking totals across the globe and is shattering expectations, especially in the United States, where projections were pessimistic just a decade ago.

In 2016 almost two-thirds of new power capacity came from renewables, bypassing net coal generation growth globally for the first time.  Most of the expansion came from a 50 percent growth in solar, much of it in China.

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