Inside Clean Energy: An Energy Snapshot In 5 Charts
For people who devour energy data like Thin Mints, last week was a special one, with the release of a trove of numbers from the Energy Information Administration showing us how 2019 fits into the bigger picture of the transition to clean energy. Natural gas remained the leading fuel for electricity, used to generate 38 percent of the country's total in 2019, up from 35 percent in the prior year, thanks to very low market prices for gas and a building spree of new gas plants.