According to a recent study, the country generated three times as much solar and wind energy last year as it did in 2012.
According to a report from the Research and Policy Center “Environment America,” seven states alone now produce enough electricity from these sources, in addition to geothermal energy, to cover half of their consumption. The report explains that just five years ago, none of these states (South Dakota, Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and New Mexico) made this level of electricity production.
According to Joanna Newman, director of the Center for Environmental America Research and Policy, “as clean energy sources supply more of our energy, they have cleared the path for additional technologies, such as electric cars and heat pumps driven by renewable energy, to replace older ones.” With the help of renewable energy sources, a cleaner and healthier future is within reach.
According to the study, the United States generated enough wind and solar energy in 2017 to power 35 million typical homes, a 270 percent (2. 7 times) increase over the amount it generated in 2012. 15 times as much solar energy was generated in 2012, enough to power 15 million homes.
According to the research, Americans bought about 647,000 electric cars in 2021, a 13-fold increase over what they did in 2012. Additionally, there were more than 120,000 chargers countrywide, a nearly 20-fold increase over what there were in 2012.
According to the data, America currently has approximately 4 times as much battery storage as the rest of the world.
7 gigawatts of storage—32 times more than in 2012—are used to keep the lights on while also enabling the use of more renewable energy. lighted when there are severe weather conditions.
From 2012 to 2021, California, Texas, and Florida demonstrated the fastest increase in solar energy and battery storage, while Texas, Oklahoma, and Iowa experienced the fastest growth in wind energy.
Over the past ten years, the United States has increased the amount of electricity it produces from renewable sources by twofold.
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