For the clearest sign yet that renewable energy has gone mainstream, consider this: Clean energy resources supplied more of America’s electricity than coal for the first time ever in April.Hydropower dams, solar panels and wind turbines generated almost 68.5 million megawatt-hours of power in April, eclipsing the 60 million that coal produced that month, Energy Information Administration data released late Tuesday show.
Renewables Surpass Coal In Power Mix
Bloomberg News, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Wed, 06/26/2019 - 1:40pm
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Topics: Iowa Linn County Cedar Rapids
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