Come Saturday Morning: Dirty Energy’s Decline

Firedoglake writes, Wind speed map of US. Credit: eere.energy.gov I saw this the other day in my inbox: According to the latest “Energy Infrastructure Update” report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects, 1,231 MW of new in-service electrical generating capacity came on line in the United States in January 2013 — all from wind, solar, and biomass sources. This represents a nearly three-fold increase in new renewable energy generating capacity compared to the same month in 2012 when wind, solar, and biomass provided 431 MW of new capacity. In other words, all of the new…

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