{"id":133018,"date":"2021-12-24T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/clean-energy-was-the-no-2-source-of-electricity-in-the-us-in-2020"},"modified":"2021-12-24T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T04:24:40","slug":"clean-energy-was-the-no-2-source-of-electricity-in-the-us-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/clean-energy-was-the-no-2-source-of-electricity-in-the-us-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy was the No. 2 source of electricity in the US in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clean-energy-was-the-no-2-source-of-electricity-in-the-us-in-20202.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T07.02A#\/?f=A&start=1949&end=2020&charted=8-10-11-12-13-14\">Clean energy sources<\/a> generated a record 834 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity, or about 21% of all electricity generated in the US in 2020, the US Energy Information Administration (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=50622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EIA<\/a>) reported yesterday. That includes wind, hydroelectric, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T10.06#\/?f=A&start=1949&end=2020&charted=0-10-9-4\">solar<\/a>, biomass, and geothermal.<\/p>\n<p><em>UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it\u2019s important to shop for the best quotes. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/understandsolarenergy.com\/whysolar3\/?lsid=511&s1={s1}\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more and get your quotes<\/a>. \u2014 *ad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T07.02A#\/?f=A&start=1949&end=2020&charted=3\">natural gas<\/a> (1.617 billion kWh) produced more electricity than clean energy in the US in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy sources generated a record 834 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity, or about 21% of all electricity generated in the US in 2020, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported yesterday. That includes wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133018","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}