Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some of the main takeaways I see in the hypnotically spiraling progress and the underlying data: In the early years, the fraction of electricity nationally from wind and solar was practically indistinguishable from zero. It didn’t pass the 1 percent mark on a monthly basis until 2007.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Efficiency is also indispensable because it can greatly reduce the amount of new clean energy infrastructure, including power plants and transmission lines, that would be needed to decarbonize the economy. In 2007 , when US carbon emissions peaked, renewables—including hydropower—generated only 8 percent of US electricity.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But these prices are still way below their highs in 1979-80 and 2007-08. In recent weeks, the key West Texas Intermediate crude benchmark hit a seven-year high , with some analysts expecting a return to $100 per barrel later in the year.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

percent less energy than in 2007, in great part due to more energy-efficient lighting, appliances and cars. The average American uses 10 percent less energy than in 2007, and the nation’s energy consumption per unit of GDP has fallen by 14 percent. — Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. — .

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

The amount of solar power generating capacity operated by the U.S. electric power sector at the end of 2021 is 20 times more than it was at the end of 2011, and U.S. wind power capacity is more than twice what it was 10 years ago.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

20] Electricity prices in Germany have risen 50 percent in the 15 years since 2007. [21] 41] Matthew Shaner, “Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States,” Energy and Environmental Science 11, no. Accessed March 7, 2021. [41] 4 (2018): 914–925, [link] [42] Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A.

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