Renewables Top Fossil Fuels as New US Power Source

Renewable Energy World: Renewable energy was the biggest source of new power added to U.S. electrical grids last year as falling prices and government incentives made wind and solar increasingly viable alternatives to fossil fuels.

Developers installed 16 GW of clean energy in 2015, or 68 percent of all new capacity, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in its Sustainable Energy in America Factbook released on Feb. 4. That was the second straight year that clean power eclipsed fossil fuels.

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