America's renewable energy set to surpass coal for the first month ever - Australia is slowly following suit
New data from the United States shows renewable energy, such as wind and solar power are, for the first time this month, set to surpass coal.“The data is pretty astounding,” he told SBS News.
“The interesting thing is, in a lot of the areas, wind blows the strongest in the evening, and now they are starting to build solar capacity in the same areas, which generates all of its capacity during the day, so the transmission lines are being used for dual purposes," he said. Coal is still the dominant energy source in this country, although output over the summer was below last year’s levels.Coal mineMost wind farms are located and planned in more windy, coastal regions, particularly in Tasmania, Victoria, Canberra and South Australia.
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