{"id":1090,"date":"2012-02-20T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/23-of-new-european-electrical-capacity-comes-from-solar-and-wind.html"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:02:51","slug":"23-of-new-european-electrical-capacity-comes-from-solar-and-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/23-of-new-european-electrical-capacity-comes-from-solar-and-wind.html","title":{"rendered":"2\/3 of new European electrical capacity comes from solar and wind"},"content":{"rendered":"If Europe can deploy mostly solar and wind for new electricity,\nwe can do the same here, especially in sunny south Georgia.\n<p>\nStephen Lacey wrote for Climate Progress 12 Feb 2012,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/02\/12\/422649\/new-european-electricity-capacity-wind-solar-in-2011\/\">\nMore than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/02\/12\/422649\/new-european-electricity-capacity-wind-solar-in-2011\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-shot-2012-02-10-at-7.37.06-AM.png\"><\/a>\n<blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s almost a 10-fold increase over deployment in 2000, when only\n3.5 GW of renewable energy projects were installed. Last year, 32 GW\nof renewables &mdash; mostly wind and solar &mdash; were deployed\nacross European countries.\n<\/blockquote>\nIf Europe can change its energy strategy that quickly, so can we.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Owed to William House.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Europe can deploy mostly solar and wind for new electricity, we can do the same here, especially in sunny south Georgia. Stephen Lacey wrote for Climate Progress 12 Feb 2012, More than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011, That&#8217;s almost a 10-fold increase over deployment in 2000, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,24,36],"tags":[2500,2061,3031,788,1131,8713,8714,8716],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-capacity","tag-electricity","tag-europe","tag-growth","tag-pv","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}