{"id":491,"date":"2016-03-30T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:37:57","slug":"wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind, natural gas &#038; solar all had a big 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Renewable energy sources come up big in 2015<\/h2>\n<p>Nearly 100 percent of new electricity generation in the United States came from one of three sources in 2015 &#8211; wind energy, solar energy or natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), those three energy sources accounted for 97 percent of new electricity production last year. Solar and wind together accounted for two-thirds of new electricity in the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wind?src=hash\">#Wind<\/a> adds the most electric generation capacity in 2015, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/natgas?src=hash\">#natgas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdplf88CRP\">https:\/\/t.co\/gdplf88CRP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qAHCHSJSXg\">pic.twitter.com\/qAHCHSJSXg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EIA (@EIAgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EIAgov\/status\/712611725426749440\">March 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Significant yearly increase in wind generation<\/h3>\n<p>Wind energy led the way, accounting for 41 percent of new electricity. Total output from new wind installations nearly doubled year-over-year (2014 to 2015), after more than quadrupling on yearly basis the previous year, from 2013 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EIA, Texas added the most new wind power in 2015, followed by Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and North Dakota. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FACT: In 2015, more <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> was added to rooftops than ever before \u2600\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5rCkDDZ7I2\">https:\/\/t.co\/5rCkDDZ7I2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EIAgov\">@EIAGov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ActOnClimate?src=hash\">#ActOnClimate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YKbiOKTf4A\">pic.twitter.com\/YKbiOKTf4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Energy Department (@ENERGY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ENERGY\/status\/713342216446599168\">March 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Big gains in residential solar<\/h3>\n<p>EIA data revealed that more solar capacity was added on rooftops across the U.S. than ever before. Nevada led the way in residential solar growth, but that state&#8217;s spot atop the charts may not last long after recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadaappeal.com\/news\/21255054-113\/solar-backers-say-puc-net-metering-changes-unconstitutional\" title=\"changes to net metering laws\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>changes to net metering laws<\/strong><\/a> may compel homeowners to look to other energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, solar energy accounted for 26 percent of new electricity generation in the U.S. last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Natgas?src=hash\">#Natgas<\/a> generation capacity additions by year <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOp7EUXbZV\">https:\/\/t.co\/bOp7EUXbZV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EIAGraphs?src=hash\">#EIAGraphs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Esx8OCanGX\">pic.twitter.com\/Esx8OCanGX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EIA (@EIAgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EIAgov\/status\/712738708789661696\">March 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>And natural gas, too<\/h3>\n<p>Natural gas sources made up 30 percent of new electricity in 2015, the EIA noted. Two states &#8212; New Jersey and Texas &#8212; accounted for nearly half of all new natural gas production.<\/p>\n<h3>More of the same<\/h3>\n<p>The EIA said to expect more of the same from the trio of sources in 2016. Earlier this month, the energy agency published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.cfm?id=25172\" title=\"estimates for 2016\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>estimates for 2016<\/strong><\/a>, with breakdowns by source.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/wind-solar-combine-to-make-up-two-thirds-of-new-energy-in-u-s-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total output from new wind installations in 2015 nearly doubled year-over-year after more than quadrupling on yearly basis the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5,7],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}