The harnessing of renewable energy for electricity generation, innovations to ditch fossil fuels and rely more wind, solar, and hydro, and energy playing a critical role in a post-Covid world
By PVBuzz editorial team
Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions in the first eight months of 2020.
Combined, they accounted for 63.3% – or 10,445 megawatts (MW) – of the 16,499 MW of new utility-scale capacity added during the first two-thirds of this year.
FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data through August 31, 2020) also reveals that natural gas accounted for 36.5% (6,029 MW) of the total, with very small contributions by coal (20 MW) and “other” sources (5 MW) providing the balance. There have been no new capacity additions by oil, nuclear power, or geothermal energy since the beginning of the year.
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