by RER Energy Group | Jan 4, 2021
As originally published on kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu The economic and energy footprint of the American agricultural industry is considerable. In 2014, on-farm operations consumed 1,714 trillion Btu of energy– close to 2 percent of the country’s total energy consumption...
by RER Energy Group | Dec 8, 2020
As originally published on www.wefourm.org The world’s energy supply today is neither safe nor sustainable. What can we do to change this and make progress against this twin-problem of the status quo? To see the way forward we have to understand the present. Today...
by RER Energy Group | Oct 16, 2020
As originally published on carbonbrief.org The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy...
by RER Energy Group | Oct 6, 2020
As originally published on cleantechnica.com After analyzing the most recent data from two of America’s largest electricity markets — ERCOT in Texas and PJM in the Northeast — the Rocky Mountain Institute has come to a startling conclusion. Renewables are muscling in...
by RER Energy Group | Oct 5, 2020
As originally published on bloomberg.com For the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation — marking a seismic shift in how nations get their electricity. Solar additions last year totaled 119 gigawatts,...
by RER Energy Group | Aug 11, 2020
As originally published on forbes.com. Renewable energy continued its blistering growth pace in 2019, globally increasing by 12.2% over 2018. Over the past decade, renewable energy consumption has grown at an average annual rate of 13.7%. Renewables were the only...