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The U.S. solar industry is doing just fine under Trump for now
I would have gone with "in spite of."
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The U.S. solar industry is doing just fine under Trump — for now
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The U.S. solar industry is doing just fine under Trump — for now
By Chris Mooney June 9 at 7:15 AM
Coming off a record year for U.S. solar installations in 2016, the first quarter of 2017 wasn’t so bad either, according to data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the industry’s lead trade group.
The U.S. saw the installation of more than 2 gigawatts, or billion watts, of new solar capacity, a quarter of it on individual rooftops, according to a Thursday report by SEIA and GTM Research.
That ranks solar second to natural gas overall for new U.S. electricity installations in the quarter, and was only a slight — 2 percent — year-on-year decline.
And yes, it’s all happening under President Trump, who has proposed to slash solar energy research funding, rescind the Clean Power Plan, and withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement –and whose Energy Department is undertaking a study of the U.S. electric grid that critics have charged is aimed at undermining intermittent energy sources like wind and solar.
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Chris Mooney reports on science and the environment. Follow @chriscmooney
By Chris Mooney June 9 at 7:15 AM
Coming off a record year for U.S. solar installations in 2016, the first quarter of 2017 wasn’t so bad either, according to data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the industry’s lead trade group.
The U.S. saw the installation of more than 2 gigawatts, or billion watts, of new solar capacity, a quarter of it on individual rooftops, according to a Thursday report by SEIA and GTM Research.
That ranks solar second to natural gas overall for new U.S. electricity installations in the quarter, and was only a slight — 2 percent — year-on-year decline.
And yes, it’s all happening under President Trump, who has proposed to slash solar energy research funding, rescind the Clean Power Plan, and withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement –and whose Energy Department is undertaking a study of the U.S. electric grid that critics have charged is aimed at undermining intermittent energy sources like wind and solar.
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Chris Mooney reports on science and the environment. Follow @chriscmooney
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