{"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":"

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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


\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I thought this blog post at Clean Technica<\/a> did a marvelous job at clarifying the issue in a simple, clear way.<\/p>\n

To put it in a nutshell, renewable resources accounted for 11% of U.S. energy production. The figure was culled from the Monthly Energy Report compiled by the Energy Information Administration<\/a> and refers to 2010. <\/p>\n

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

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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

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

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

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

Hopefully, when the next report is out, the renewable energy figures will be even higher.<\/p>\n

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