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Market forces are driving a clean energy revolution in the US

  • Written by Bill Ritter, Jr., Director, Center for the New Energy Economy, Colorado State University
Block Island Wind, the first offshore wind energy project in the U.S., started operation in 2016.Ionna22, CC BY-SA

Transforming U.S. energy systems away from coal and toward clean renewable energy was once a vision touted mainly by environmentalists. Now it is shared by market purists.

Today, renewable energy resources like wind and solar power...

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