States boast 60 per cent increase in renewable energy use in 2008

The US may have messed up a bit of accounts and pulled the world into the quicksand but it also has a few things to be very proud of. The most important one is that about 60 percent of the new generating capacity added in the US last year revolves around new renewables including solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy devices. Travis Bradford who heads up the Prometheus Institute that conducts research noticed this achievement.

It seems in 2005 new renewables only accounted for about 15 percent of marginal capacity and went up to 30 per cent in 2006, growing higher to 45 per cent in 2007. so there is a steady growth in the use of renewable energy. And now with so many solar power plants erupting around the states, let us hope and pray hard that our glaciers and Greenland don’t melt away too soon.
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