Happy Sun Day, everyone! Take a few moments to celebrate the warmth of the sun in your life, how it sheds light and energy to all on Earth. Clean energy now employs more people than fossil fuels—over 36 million jobs globally are connected to the clean energy economy. Solar and wind projects deliver power cheaper than gas or coal ever could. And clean energy is far more efficient than fossil fuels. (Bill McKibben)
It’s worth celebrating!
Bill McKibben: “Texas is now installing renewable energy and batteries faster than California; in a single week in March, it set records for solar and wind production as well as for battery discharge.”
Bill McKibben: “Whole economies are now relying on solar. California was powered by 100% clean energy for more than 100 days this year, and solar was the biggest source of energy in the EU last month.”
“People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours. Solar power is now growing faster than any power source in history, and it is closely followed by wind power.”
Bill McKibben
“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben: “[At] some point in the last five years or so, we crossed an invisible line where it became cheaper to generate power from the sun and the wind than it did from setting coal and gas and oil on fire. We now live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce energy is to point a sheet of glass at the sun. This isn’t ‘alternative energy’ anymore–it’s the common sense obvious path.”
The Bridge 