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For the first time ever, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal in the US


The "Age of Electricity" is here.

Credit: Wikimedia CommonsThis year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) declared that the world is officially leaving behind the Age of Coal and Oil. The Trump administration has attempted to stifle its growth, cutting funding, halting federal approvals for wind farms, and imposing tariffs that could raise costs for new projects. “When project developers are considering which resources to deploy in the grid, they look 20, 30, 40 years down the line,” Timothy Fox, a managing director at ClearView Energy Partners told The NY Times.

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