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Clinton vs. Obama on Renewables
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539941/clinton-vs-obama-on-renewables/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Clinton vs. Obama on Renewables[/font]
[font size=4]Hillary Clinton’s ambitious plan to grow solar installations dwarfs the goals laid out for renewables in President Obama’s clean energy plan.[/font]
By Peter Fairley on August 4, 2015
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Last week the top-polling Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, promised to increase solar power installations seven-fold by the end of her first term if she is elected next year. And on Monday President Obama unveiled final limits for power industry carbon emissions through 2030 that, according to White House projections, foresee a 27 percent larger role for renewables than the Environmental Protection Agency had anticipated in its June 2014 proposal.
The White House projects that U.S. power plants will cut carbon emissions by 870 million tons per year by 2030 under Obama’s Clean Power Plan, reducing the industry’s emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels. Most of the reduction would come from idling coal-fired power plants, whose share of U.S. power generation is projected to slide from 39 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2030.
Natural gas, which the EPA had initially projected to be the go-to replacement for coal, is now expected to hold steady at roughly its current level of 27 percent of generation. Instead, renewable energy is to take up the slack left by closing coal plants, surging to provide 28 percent of U.S. power generation in 2030. That is more than double what renewables such as wind, solar, and hydropower delivered in 2013 and well above the 22 percent contribution that the EPA had initially projected for 2030.
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It is, however, small change compared to the scale of Hillary Clinton’s proposals, which would push renewables far harder and faster. Her proposal calls for renewable energy to reach 33 percent of the U.S. power supply by 2027, largely by extending tax credits for solar energy to spur a massive early expansion of solar installations.
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[font size=4]Hillary Clinton’s ambitious plan to grow solar installations dwarfs the goals laid out for renewables in President Obama’s clean energy plan.[/font]
By Peter Fairley on August 4, 2015
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Last week the top-polling Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, promised to increase solar power installations seven-fold by the end of her first term if she is elected next year. And on Monday President Obama unveiled final limits for power industry carbon emissions through 2030 that, according to White House projections, foresee a 27 percent larger role for renewables than the Environmental Protection Agency had anticipated in its June 2014 proposal.
The White House projects that U.S. power plants will cut carbon emissions by 870 million tons per year by 2030 under Obama’s Clean Power Plan, reducing the industry’s emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels. Most of the reduction would come from idling coal-fired power plants, whose share of U.S. power generation is projected to slide from 39 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2030.
Natural gas, which the EPA had initially projected to be the go-to replacement for coal, is now expected to hold steady at roughly its current level of 27 percent of generation. Instead, renewable energy is to take up the slack left by closing coal plants, surging to provide 28 percent of U.S. power generation in 2030. That is more than double what renewables such as wind, solar, and hydropower delivered in 2013 and well above the 22 percent contribution that the EPA had initially projected for 2030.
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It is, however, small change compared to the scale of Hillary Clinton’s proposals, which would push renewables far harder and faster. Her proposal calls for renewable energy to reach 33 percent of the U.S. power supply by 2027, largely by extending tax credits for solar energy to spur a massive early expansion of solar installations.
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