Solar and wind energy growth soared in 2020 and is on course to keep catapulting upward. Last year, renewable sources of electricity grew faster than they have since 1999. That rapid rise is far from a one-off event, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which said today that the “exceptionally high” growth in 2020 is the “new normal.”
It’s yet another signal that renewable energy is elbowing out competition from fossil fuels, at least when it comes to electricity. New renewable energy capacity — primarily solar and wind — made up a whopping 90 percent of the power sector’s growth globally last year, according to the IEA, an intergovernmental organization that was founded to monitor the world’s oil supply but now also tracks renewable energy. The agency forecasts renewables to again account for 90 percent of the power sector’s expansion in 2021 and 2022.
That transition to renewable energy for electricity falls in line with many countries’ goals on climate change. President Joe Biden, for example, aims to get the US power sector running completely on clean energy by 2035. Electrifying buildings and transportation so that they can use solar and wind instead of oil and gas is one way governments and the private sector have moved to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewable electricity capacity grew by 280 gigawatts last year. The uptick amounts to a 45 percent rise in renewables last year compared to the year before. The IEA expects another 270 to 280 GW to come online this year and again in 2022.
Governments and companies purchased renewable energy at “record-breaking” rates last year, according to the IEA, and their appetite is still growing.Amazon proclaimed itself the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world in December 2020, beating out former record-holder Google, and it now has 8.5 GW of renewable energy capacity globally. The IEA’s estimates for global renewable electricity growth over the next couple of years are now more than 25 percent higher than previous estimates it made just six months ago.
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Jobs Jobs Jobs. Biden Boom
Universal Orlando hiring for more than 2,000 jobs
And Biden killed the pipeline that employed 18k workers.
He shut down new exploration sites that employed thousands, not to mention all the support jobs for those workers.. food industry..clothing retailers.. car dealerships/repair shops.. wally world employees selling toilet paper.. the truckers that bring all those goods into the area... and the list goes on.
He is employing queers..trans.. liars/cheats all the members of the SWAMP.
And he assigned one of the most important jobs to his Ho that refuses to do her job or visit the area she's responsible for.. the Border Crisis...and that allows more and more covid infected fucks into the country and bidens HHS trans guy says it's to time consuming to test/treat those folks.
He has the vax's needed but is selling them off to third world cuntries.
What happened to Build Back Better?
Our country is in shambles due to his lack of understanding the grave situation at hand.
Naw spend BILLIONS to house the infected criminals on our dime when he could have left Trump's policies intact.. but because he and the DNC HATE Trump to no end he is making it so our great great grandkids won't be able to get out of debt by the time they pass on.
Fucking loser Biden built this.
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... at peak construction, the Keystone pipeline was projected to employ 1,950 temporary workers over two years. Once complete, 35 workers full time and 15 part time workers.
Did Biden's Order To Halt Keystone XL Pipeline 'Destroy' 11,000 Jobs? | Snopes.com
All of those displaced workers certainly found other employment as the trades and truckers are in high demand across the country thanks to the Biden economic boom which stretches across the nation.
It is amazing how many false claims and insults you can pack into 213 words.
This must be your true skill! Telling the truth is not one of them.!
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