{"id":4211,"date":"2011-04-15T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:47","slug":"renewable-energy-production-grows-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/renewable-energy-production-grows-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Production Grows in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4094\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HouseArrayResized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HouseArrayResized-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HouseArrayResized\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HouseArrayResized-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HouseArrayResized.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Solarpv.co<\/figcaption><\/figure>With so many sources of information and conflicting data, it becomes hard to gauge how much renewable energy actually contributes to the energy mix in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I thought this <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2011\/04\/12\/11-of-u-s-energy-production-from-renewable-resources-in-2011\/\" target=\"blank\">blog post at Clean Technica<\/a> did a marvelous job at clarifying the issue in a simple, clear way.<\/p>\n<p>To put it in a nutshell, renewable resources accounted for 11% of U.S. energy production. The figure was culled from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/\" target=\"blank\">Monthly Energy Report compiled by the Energy Information Administration<\/a> and refers to 2010. <\/p>\n<p>As the Japanese nuclear disaster continues to mushroom into a Chernobyl style catastrophe, it is good to hear that nuclear power\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s share of the total dropped to 19.6% in 2010 from 20.2% of the total electricity net generation. Not much, but at least it went down.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>Biomass and biofuels continue to lead with 51.98% of the clean energy total, followed by hydropower at 30.66%, wind (30.66%), geothermal (4.68%) and solar (1.38%). All of these categories have experienced growth between 2009 and 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Wind increased by 28%, biomass and biofuels did by 10% while solar and geothermal rose by 4% each. Hydropower dropped by 6%, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a bad thing since hydro, although a renewable sources of power, does have a significant environmental impact. (include link).<\/p>\n<p>The figures above refer to energy as a whole, including transportation. In terms of renewable power for electricity generation, renewables made a significant impact. In total these accounted for 4.08% of the net electric generation (excluding hydro) and 10.32% (including hydro). Of the clean energy total, wind accounts for 56.3%, biomass accounts for 33.6%, geothermal accounts for 9.3% and solar 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Solar is the one who saw most growth at 45.8%. It was followed by wind (28.1%), geothermal (4.4%) and biomass (3.7%).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, when the next report is out, the renewable energy figures will be even higher.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! 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