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00:04:22 1 Rationale for renewables
00:10:01 2 Current trends
00:13:16 3 Future projections
00:14:34 4 Renewable electricity sources
00:14:45 4.1 Hydroelectricity
00:16:05 4.2 Wind power
00:18:56 4.3 Solar power
00:20:52 4.3.1 Photovoltaics
00:24:31 4.3.2 Concentrated solar power
00:30:33 4.4 Geothermal power
00:32:55 4.5 Biomass
00:34:51 4.6 Wave power
00:35:37 5 Solar water heating
00:37:19 6 Biofuels
00:40:08 7 Renewable energy research
00:46:41 8 Public opinion
00:49:06 9 Policy and promotion
00:53:56 9.1 Initiatives
00:54:05 9.1.1 SunShot
00:55:11 9.1.2 Wind Powering America
00:56:04 9.1.3 Solar America Initiative
00:57:30 9.1.4 California Solar Initiative
00:58:27 9.1.5 Green Power Partnership
00:59:03 9.1.6 Renewable portfolio standards
00:59:54 10 Renewable energy organizations
01:03:01 11 Potential resources
01:04:23 12 Historical data
01:04:33 13 See also
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Renewable energy accounted for 12.2 % of total primary energy consumption and 14.94 % of the domestically produced electricity in the United States in 2016.Hydroelectric power is currently the largest producer of renewable electricity in the country, generating around 6.5% of the nation's total electricity in 2016 as well as 45.71% of the total renewable electricity generation.
The United States is the fourth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world after China, Canada and Brazil.
The next largest share of renewable power was provided by wind power at 5.55% of total power production, amounting to 226.5 terawatt-hours during 2016. By January 2017, the United States nameplate generating capacity for wind power was 82,183 megawatts (MW). Texas remained firmly established as the leader in wind power deployment, followed by Iowa and Oklahoma as of year end 2016.Solar power provides a growing share of electricity in the country, with over 50 GW of installed capacity generating about 1.3% of the country's total electricity supply in 2017, up from 0.9% the previous year.
As of 2016, more than 260,000 people worked in the solar industry and 43 states deployed net metering, where energy utilities bought back excess power generated by solar arrays. Large photovoltaic power plants in the United States include Mount Signal Solar (600 MW) and Solar Star (579 MW). Since the United States pioneered solar thermal power technology in the 1980s with Solar One, several more such power stations have been built. The largest of these solar thermal power stations are the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility (392 MW), southwest of Las Vegas, and the SEGS group of plants in the Mojave Desert, with a total generating capacity of 354 MW.Other renewable energy sources include geothermal, with The Geysers in Northern California the largest geothermal complex in the world.
The development of renewable energy and energy efficiency marked "a new era of energy exploration" in the United States, according to the former President Barack Obama. In a joint address to the Congress on February 24, 2009, President Obama called for doubling renewable energy within the following three years. Renewable energy reached a major milestone in the first quarter of 2011, when it contributed 11.7 % of total national energy production (2.245 quadrillion BTU of energy), surpassing energy production from nuclear power (2.125 quadrillion BTU) for the first time since 1997.
In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama restated his commitment to renewable energy and mentioned the long-standing Interior Department commitment to permit 10,000 MW of renewable energy projects on public land in 2012.
