{"id":615469,"date":"2009-11-29T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6779214069940998455.post-4965730251305035418"},"modified":"2009-11-29T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T13:33:07","slug":"projections-of-renewable-energy-growth-given-business-as-usual%e2%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615469","title":{"rendered":"Projections of renewable energy growth given &#8220;business as usual&#8221;\u200f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hH9lVrBHAtI\/SxJ321KqmyI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/b1QLsB_wV34\/s1600\/0125-biz-webLAB.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hH9lVrBHAtI\/SxJ321KqmyI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/b1QLsB_wV34\/s320\/0125-biz-webLAB.gif?w=780\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Renewable energy today supplies only 6 percent of the country&#8217;s energy needs, and much of that comes from decades-old dams supplying hydropower. Under current policies, the Energy Information Administration estimates, renewables will increase only slightly in importance in the decades ahead. They would supply 7 percent of United States energy supplies by 2030, while coal would increase over the same period from 23 percent to 26 percent. <br \/>&#8220;Denmark gets 22 percent of its electrical energy from wind today and we get 0.5 percent,&#8221; noted Robert Thresher, director of the lab&#8217;s National Wind Technology Center. &#8220;That shows you what you can do when you really want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6779214069940998455-4965730251305035418?l=blog.seankidney.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy today supplies only 6 percent of the country&#8217;s energy needs, and much of that comes from decades-old dams supplying hydropower. Under current policies, the Energy Information Administration estimates, renewables will increase only slightly in importance in the decades ahead. They would supply 7 percent of United States energy supplies by 2030, while coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}