Increasing renewable energy consumption. Consumption of renewable fuels that do not produce carbon dioxide increased 9% during the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015. Wind energy, which saw the largest electricity generating capacity additions of any fuel in 2015, accounted for nearly half the increase. Hydroelectric power, which has...Continue Reading
(in gigawatts) This statistic represents major countries at the end of year 2015, by cumulative solar PV capacity. China’s cumulative solar PV (photovoltaics) capacity reached 43.5 gigawatts at the end of 2015.Continue Reading
(in megawatts) This statistic represents the demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) power worldwide from 2007 to 2014 with a forecast for 2015 to 2020. In 2017, solar PV demand is expected to total 61,165 megawatts around the world. The United States has started a process to implement taxes on solar products from China and Taiwan,...Continue Reading
2009 estimate of finite and renewable planetary energy reserves (Terrawatt-years). Total recoverable reserves are shown for the finite resources. Yearly potential is shown for the renewables. Copyright Perez & Perez.Continue Reading
US solar energy industry added more jobs in 2015 than the US oil & gas extraction & pipeline industries added combined, and grew 12x faster than the US economy as a whole.Continue Reading
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