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May 6, 2016

Shift to green power benefits GOP states

  • Leading the way in new wind projects are GOP strongholds Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and Republican-dominated North Carolina trails only California in new solar farms.
    • By MICHAEL BIESECKER
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — If there's a War on Coal, it's increasingly clear which side is winning.

    Wind turbines and solar panels accounted for more than two-thirds of all new electric generation capacity added to the nation's grid in 2015, according to a recent analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy. The remaining third was largely new power plants fueled by natural gas, which has become cheap and plentiful as a result of hydraulic fracturing.


     
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