{"id":19834,"date":"2016-06-02T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19834"},"modified":"2016-06-02T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:24:06","slug":"some-good-news-renewable-energy-smashes-global-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19834","title":{"rendered":"Some good news: renewable energy smashes global records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow the news &#8211; and I&#8217;m a bit of a news junkie &#8211; most of it is depressing, so it&#8217;s a good idea to highlight positive news stories when they come along. Like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An upsurge in new wind, solar and hydro plants and capacity saw renewable energy smash global records last year, according to a report on new supply.<\/p>\n<p>Some 147 Gigawatts of renewable electricity came online in 2015 &#8211; the largest annual increase ever and as much as Africa\u2019s entire power generating capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Clean energy investment increased to $286bn (\u00a3198bn), with solar energy accounting for 56% of the total and wind power for 38%.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, more than twice as much money was spent on renewables than on coal and gas-fired power generation ($130bn in 2015), the REN21 global status report found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on this story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jun\/01\/renewable-energy-smashes-global-records-in-2015-report-shows\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow the news &#8211; and I&#8217;m a bit of a news junkie &#8211; most of it is depressing, so it&#8217;s a good idea to highlight positive news stories when they come along. Like this one: &#8220;An upsurge in new wind, solar and hydro plants and capacity saw renewable energy smash global records last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19836,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}