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The EIA data also shows that the increase in wind and solar electricity generation along with the geothermal, hydroelectric and biomass energy makes about 30 per cent of the total electricity of the USA.
Coal continues to be the backbone of power production in the USA but it is on a declining trend. The coal based power has decreased by about 4 per cent last year.
Data from SUN DAY Campaign analysis of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has revealed that the wind and solar energy sources produced 17.96 per cent more power than nuclear power plants in the USA. It is for the first time that the United States produced more solar and wind energy than nuclear in the country’s history. Happening even as there is widespread skepticism in that country about the viability of solar and wind, the issue is whether this will allow unfettered growth of solar and wind…