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US Power Costs Falling With Low-Carbon Energy: ‘We’ve Entered a New Era’

The impressive numbers for renewable energy in 2015 keep coming.

Just as there has been a tipping point globally in clean energy, the same is true in the U.S., according to new figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

The fourth annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook  highlights the record yearfor utility-scale and distributed solar, huge gains for wind energy, and a shift away from coal toward natural gas (which has a smaller carbon footprint although it is hardly clean). The result is an energy industry that is decarbonizing across the board.

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