Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020

Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by mbgerring on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:10AM (#27993374)

The large agency forecasts have underestimated the growth of renewables for I think about a decade.

But, concerning your optimism — one of the reasons that renewables have gotten better and cheaper faster than predicted is that smart people decided to work on it. There’s a lot of opportunity in clean energy and climate tech, and working on it full time is a great way to manifest your optimism.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by pydry on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:36AM (#27994223)

China's energy insecurity is also a large part of it.

Their exposure to shipping blockades in the south china sea and reliance on oil and gas imports provided a lot of the early impetus for beating down the price.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by heurisko on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:06AM (#27994384)

If one is not able to work in the industry oneself, there are also clean-energy ETFs that one can invest in, to support companies working on clean energy, which can manifest similar optimism by-proxy.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by rotexo on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:50PM (#27998533)

Have any recommendations? I bought a bunch of shares of VOTE recently (the Engine No. 1 ETF), but I’m curious about others.

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Re:Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electric... by heurisko on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:57AM (#28018655)

I think a Google search for "clean energy ETF" yields some good results.

I wouldn't say I am 100pc invested in clean energy ETFs, but do hold them for ideological reasons.

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