Shift toward renewable energy felt locally, though challenges to adoption remain - telegraphherald.com
Shift toward renewable energy felt locally, though challenges to adoption remain | Tri-state News | telegraphherald.com
A national shift toward renewable energy is being felt in the tri-state area, though challenges remain to adapt to the transition’s rapid recent pace.
Renewable energies — from wind and solar to biofuels and new technologies — are one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors. President Joe Biden’s administration has led more federal investment and incentives for renewable energy than any president in history. And area energy leaders say current markets also are accelerating the transition to renewables.
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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.