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The Texas Paradox

Legal Planet

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas. They’re always shocked to find out the right answer: Texas.

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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Most studies show that achieving these targets will require an unprecedented increase in wind and solar power to decarbonize the power sector and meet the increased demand for zero- carbon electricity to replace fossil fuels in building, industrial and transportation sectors.

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U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants

PA Environment Daily

We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. electricity generation over the past 10 years has been the rapid expansion of renewable energy resources, especially solar and wind. electric generators averaged $4.88

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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Oil majors are eying up renewable energy projects

A Greener Life

This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth. between 2020 and 2030.

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Offshore Wind Will Add Power When New England Needs It Most

Union of Concerned Scientists

From analyses of specific weather events to probabilistic energy modeling based on 70 years of historical data, the results have shown that offshore wind energy is reliably strong across a broad range of cold weather conditions.

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .