Renewable Energy Production Growing Despite of Obstacles
Categories: U.S. Legislatitive Issues |
Author:
Mike Williams |
Posted: 1/10/2012 |
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The renewable energy sector experienced a volatile year in 2011, confronting critics and competitors who question the validity of new, sustainable sources of power and fuels. Nevertheless renewable energy advocates surmounted many of the hurdles that were erected and continued to press forward on the long march to a clean energy future.
A review of the past year shows those advocates had much to point to in asserting the viability and validity of renewables in meeting our nation’s growing energy needs. A recent analysis by the DOE’s Energy Information Administration estimates that once the total supply of renewables is calculated for 2011, it will have grown by a remarkable 11 percent over the previous year’s total.
In fact, renewable energy sources – biomass and biofuels, geothermal energy, solar power, wind energy and hydropower – provided 4.687 quadrillion Btus of energy, a record 12.25 percent, of U.S. energy production, during the first six months of 2011. Power generated by renewables exceeded that produced from nuclear power during the first quarter of the year. And the EIA says wind energy is projected to grow by 22 percent from 2010 to 2011. Final U.S. hydropower generation numbers in 2011 are estimated to reach their highest level since 1999.
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