Renewables just passed coal as the largest source of new electricity worldwide

[womanofthehills]

It’s been a long run, coal, but your reign is over.

Renewable energy sources have passed coal as the largest new source of electricity in the world, according data released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The transition of the world’s energy sources is critical for avoiding a 2°C rise in global temperatures. Coal, for instance, represented about a quarter of U.S. CO2 emissions in 2012.

Solar and wind account for almost two-thirds of the growth in renewables, which is coming from industrialized and developing nations alike.

https://thinkprogress.org/more-renewables-than-coal-worldwide-36a3ab11704d#.nc0wdlkiu

[randr]

1. Americans should all be celebrating

[underpants]

2. Coal is dead

Thank you for posting this.

[Dustlawyer]

3. Good news but it needs to spread faster!

We must pressure our Representatives to do away with fees and excess charges for residential and commercial solar to be able to stay connected to the grid and sell their excess power.

They also need to enact laws requiring a modernization of our failing electric grid in favor of a Smart Grid to handle it all more efficiently. Electric cars will probably be the future since they can run on clean renewables.