AWEA statement on BCSE 2016 Factbook
Feb 4 2016
AWEA statement on BCSE 2016 Factbook
According to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s fourth annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook(Opens in a new window), new energy technologies in the U.S. made further critical advances and locked in long-term gains in 2015.
“Wind power is two-thirds cheaper than it was six years ago, and after installing eight gigawatts of clean wind energy last year we’re going to keep this American success story going. Now that there’s long-term policy certainty in place, and with states and utilities increasingly looking to lock in low-cost wind energy to reach their Clean Power Plan carbon reductions, now is a great time to invest in American wind power. Wind energy is well on its way to reliably supplying 20 percent of the country’s electricity by 2030.” – Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association.