From Just Have a Think.
Renewable energy technologies will make up 99% of all new electricity grid installations in the USA in 2025. Not because of some sort of ‘left wing ideology’, but simply because the numbers add up better than they do for fossil fuels and developers see them as the quickest and easiest way to see a return on their investment capital. So why is the current administration still stuck in the 1970s?
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Other Reference Links:
Bill McKibben – Why Trump’s War on Solar Power Will Fail
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/clean-energy-solar-wind-power.html
Bill McKibben – The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/magazine/climate-change-activism-renewable-energy.html
Lazard LCOE report
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International Energy Agency
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/5b169aa1-bc88-4c96-b828-aaa50406ba80/GlobalEnergyReview2025.pdf
NREL
https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2024/index
Berkeley Lab
https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/utility-scale_solar_2024_executive_summary.pdf
World Bank
https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/sites/default/files/download-documents/sdg7-report2025-0804-v11.pdf
World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/clean-energy-resilience-uncertain-times/
Energy Information Administration
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/AEO2025_LCOE_report.pdf
Wood Mac report
https://go.woodmac.com/l/131501/2025-06-09/34fh4v/131501/1749488483ziDv8ffZ/US_SMI_Q2_2025_ES.pdf
EMBER report
https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/04/Report-Global-Electricity-Review-2025.pdf
PV Magazine – US solar panel manufacturing
New Scientist – Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2495031-why-solar-power-is-the-only-viable-power-source-in-the-long-run/
Antonio Guterres full speech
SEIA Website
New Poll Reveals Overwhelming Support for Federal Clean Energy Incentives
US Government Treasury attack on renewables
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-thomas-4b01054a_the-treasury-dept-just-released-its-long-awaited-activity-7362225803222290433-K2P7/
Why solar power is the only viable long term option
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