What We Know—and Do Not Know—About Achieving a National-Scale 100% Renewable Electric Grid

NREL and DOE Experts Offer Fresh Perspective on Technical and Economic Challenges, Call for Collaborative Solutions to Decarbonization With recently announced federal emissions-reduction targets, a push for national power-sector decarbonization, and plummeting wind and solar costs, […]

Nonfossil Sources accounted for 20% of U.S. Energy Consumption in 2019

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review Overall energy consumption in the United States totaled 100 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2019, only slightly less than the record set in 2018 and the third-highest level […]