Solar generated 39 percent of new capacity in 2016, up from 30 percent in 2015. (ibtimes.com)
Thus, for the month, renewables provided more than seven times the amount of new capacity as that from fossil fuels and nuclear power. (ases.org)
In other words, electricity reference prices were set to account for the cost of production, transmission and distribution, but no other costs, such as allowances for building new capacity. (iea.org)