The renewable energy revolution is progressing faster than we realize

By Kent R. Kroeger (June 19, 2018)

A radical transformation of the world’s energy economy from fossil fuels to renewables is well underway and its momentum will make it hard (if not impossible) to reverse.

News on the advancement of the renewable energy revolution occurs every day:

India has increased the renewable purchase obligation(RPO) target from 17 percent now to 21 percent by 2022 for India’s largest power consumers, according to India’s Ministry of Power.

CDP, a not-for-profit environmental impact research organization, now says that 101 of the more than 570 cities it monitors generated at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources in 2017, compared to 42 in 2015. The City of London (UK) recently said its electricity generation would be 100-percent renewable by October 2018.

And the U.S., despite the Trump administration’s efforts to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, more and more cities are committing themselves to 100-percent renewable electricity generation by mid-century. The Sierra Club now reports over 65 U.S. cities have adopted 100 percent renewable energy goals, with five cities already reaching that milestone: Aspen CO, Burlington, VT, Greensburg, KS, Rock port, MO, and Kodiak…