{"id":106562,"date":"2020-05-05T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/americas-renewable-energy-sources-have-produced-more-electricity-than-coal-every-day-for-40-days-straight"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:03:30","slug":"americas-renewable-energy-sources-have-produced-more-electricity-than-coal-every-day-for-40-days-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/americas-renewable-energy-sources-have-produced-more-electricity-than-coal-every-day-for-40-days-straight","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s renewable energy sources have produced more electricity than coal every day for 40 days straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"853\" height=\"480\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.newsweek.com\/transcoder\/480p\/2551\/windmills-cms-1-1553867126.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Renewable sources including solar, wind and hydropower generated more electricity than coal-based plants every single day in April, a new report says.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis shared by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEFA), based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), said the finding marks a major \u201cmilestone\u201d in an energy transition that is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>The move away from coal for electricity generation in the U.S. accelerated in 2020 due to lower gas prices, warmer weather and a \u201csignificant amount\u201d of new renewable capacity being connected to the grid late last year, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ieefa.org\/ieefa-update-renewables-surpass-coal-in-u-s-power-generation-throughout-the-month-of-april-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">report suggested<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable sources including solar, wind and hydropower generated more electricity than coal-based plants every single day in April, a new report says. Analysis shared by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEFA), based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), said the finding marks a major \u201cmilestone\u201d in an energy transition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-finance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}