{"id":16879,"date":"2017-07-10T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16879"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:21:00","slug":"renewable-energy-is-becoming-so-cheap-the-us-will-meet-paris-commitments-even-if-trump-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16879","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy is becoming so cheap the US will meet Paris commitments even if Trump withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Globally, the price of solar panels has fallen 50% between 2016 and 2017, they write. And in countries with favorable wind conditions, the costs associated with wind power \u201ccan be as low as one-half to one-third that of coal- or natural gas-fired power plants.\u201d Innovations in wind-turbine design are allowing for ever-longer wind blades; that boost in efficiency will also increase power output from the wind sector, according to Morgan Stanley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1024520\/renewable-energy-is-becoming-so-cheap-the-us-will-meet-paris-commitments-even-if-trump-withdraws\/\">Renewable energy is becoming so cheap the US will meet Paris commitments even if Trump withdraws \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, the price of solar panels has fallen 50% between 2016 and 2017, they write. And in countries with favorable wind conditions, the costs associated with wind power \u201ccan be as low as one-half to one-third that of coal- or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[776,822,1209],"class_list":["post-16879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-green-tech","tag-power","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16880,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions\/16880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}