Rock River Times: Fossil fuels remain the dominant global energy source. But increases in efficiency, solar, wind and biomass are seen as long-term threats to fossil fuel interests. While roughly 40 percent of our electricity is still produced from coal and slightly less than 1 percent of utility customers get power from their solar arrays, solar installations are on the rise. In 2013, the 29 percent of new generating capacity from solar nearly tripled the 10 percent of installations in 2012.
A report from the...