Climate action can't wait any longer. Columbia needs to act now. - Columbia Missourian
Climate action can't wait any longer. Columbia needs to act now. | Local Columnists | columbiamissourian.com
When it comes to renewable energy, there seems to be a discrepancy between what the Columbia community wants and what the city is delivering.
In the 2024 Renewable Energy Plan released this month by the city-owned Water and Light utility, it is hard not to notice the large gap between how much renewable energy the utility is supposed to be using and what it actually employed last year.
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Renewable energy sources — once the fuel of the future, then practical in specific, narrow applications — are increasingly economic mainstream sources of power generation. Hydropower was long the mainstay of U.S. renewable electricity generation, although wind power surpassed hydro for the first time in 2019, and solar continues its rapid growth. The continued growth of wind and solar, with their fluctuations, is tied in part to improvements in storage technology: batteries.