Sentences with phrase «u.s. electrical capacity»

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Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.

Washington DC — According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower provided 88.2 % of new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity for the month of May.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

5 New wind power projects contributed roughly 25 % of the new nameplate capacity added to the U.S. electrical grid in 2010, compared to 42 % in 2009, 43 % in 2008, 34 % in 2007, 18 % in 2006, 12 % in 2005, and less than 4 % from 2000 through 2004

Breaking a streak of five years in which wind power was the second - largest new resource added to the U.S. electrical grid in terms of aggregate gross capacity, in 2010 wind power placed third, behind the 7,200 MW of new natural gas and 6,000 MW of new coal - fired generation capacity.

The Sierra Club, which has a Beyond Coal campaign, said 142 U.S. coal - fired power plants have closed during its efforts, representing 105 gigawatts of electrical capacity.