The U.S. Energy Information Administration released data stating that nuclear energy and renewable energy both accounted for 11% of the entire power supply in 2010. While nuclear power use is decreasing, renewable energy is steadily increasing. Within the renewable energy statistics biomass and biofuels accounted for 51.95% of renewable energy in the U.S while hydropower accounted for 31.5%, wind was 10.52%, geothermal 4.65%, and solar 1.38%. The only category of renewable energy that is declining is hyropower by 5.2% compared to the same period in 2009. The fastest growing category is wind which increased by 26.7%, next is biomass by 10%, and solar by 2.4%. In comparison nuclear declined by .5%.
http://inhabitat.com/renewable-energy-now-neck-and-neck-with-nuclear-in-the-us/
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