{"id":406,"date":"2016-02-14T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=406"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:22:09","slug":"renewable-energy-accounted-for-20-percent-of-u-s-capacity-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/renewable-energy-accounted-for-20-percent-of-u-s-capacity-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy accounted for 20 percent of U.S. capacity in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Huge increase seen in power generated by renewable sources<\/h2>\n<p>Renewable energy sources became a bigger part of the energy equation in the U.S. in 2015, accounting for about 20 percent of all capacity.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCSE-2016-Sustainable-Energy-in-America-Factbook_Executive-Summary.pdf\" title=\"recent report form the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>recent report form the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)<\/strong><\/a>, electricity generation from renewable sources has seen a 57 percent increase from 2008 to 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Renewableenergy?src=hash\">#Renewableenergy<\/a> = 20% of US 2015 power fleet, 57% increase over 2008  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Factbook?src=hash\">#Factbook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2lFqDMMU5c\">https:\/\/t.co\/2lFqDMMU5c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/04990dEhOD\">pic.twitter.com\/04990dEhOD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BCSE Clean Energy (@BCSECleanEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCSECleanEnergy\/status\/695653384246972416\">February 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Wind power &amp; solar power<\/h3>\n<p>An estimated 8.5GW of wind power and and estimated 7.3GW of solar power was installed in the U.S. in 2015, according to the BCSE.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers represent a 65 percent year-over-year increase for wind power and a 13 percent year-over-year increase for solar photovoltaic (PV).<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/eia-electricity-generated-from-renewable-sources-should-jump-in-2016\/\" title=\"EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/turbines-387282_1280-150x150.jpg\" title=\"EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016\" alt=\"EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/eia-electricity-generated-from-renewable-sources-should-jump-in-2016\/\" title=\"EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016\"><h4>EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/eia-electricity-generated-from-renewable-sources-should-jump-in-2016\/\" title=\"EIA: Electricity generated from renewable sources should jump in 2016\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Hydro power leads the way<\/h3>\n<p>Overall, renewable energy sources now account for about 20 percent of U.S. capacity. According to the BCSE report, hydroelectric sources account for nearly half of this renewable power. <\/p>\n<p>Wind follows hydro as the second-highest producing renewable technology, and has grown threefold in capacity since 2008 &#8212; 25GW capacity in 2008 to 75GW at the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Solar grew to a total capacity of 28GW at the end of 2015, trailing both hydro power and wind power, but is growing the fastest in the bunch on a year-over-year level.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TRIPLE PLAY: CO2 reductions, cost savings &amp; economic growth. American <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleanenergy?src=hash\">#cleanenergy<\/a> scores big in 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cRNT8cSroL\">pic.twitter.com\/cRNT8cSroL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BCSE Clean Energy (@BCSECleanEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCSECleanEnergy\/status\/695728787384827904\">February 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCSE-2016-Sustainable-Energy-in-America-Factbook_Executive-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy sources became a bigger part of the energy equation in the U.S. in 2015, accounting for about 20 percent of all capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,6,5,7],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}