Renewable energy efforts let emission plummet in Nevada

Grimes Point, near Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada (source: flickr/ Ken Lund, creative commons)

Alexander Richter 5 Haz 2014

A local news source has informed that Nevada has had the highest decline nationwide carbon dioxide emissions between 2005-2011, according to a federal report for energy and power emissions.

Over this period,the CO2 emissions for the sector fell 33 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s “Today in Energy” report, and the state’s reduction in carbon-intensive coal use was one of the key factors.

“Nevada’s lower-bounding trend shows the effects of substantially decarbonizing its electric power sector between 2005 and 2011, Nevada significantly reduced its coal use while increasing solar and geothermal use,” the report stated.

Other facts stated in the news source and quoting from the report:

• The state generated 68 percent of its electricity from cleaner-burning natural gas in 2013.
• The state ranked second in the nation in utility-scale net electricity generation from geothermal energy and third in utility-scale net generation from solar energy in 2013; 9.8 percent of Nevada’s net electricity generation in 2013 came from those two sources.
• The state-mandated Energy Portfolio Standard requires that 25 percent of electricity sales come from renewable energy resources by 2025. In 2013, 18 percent of net electricity generation came from geothermal, solar, wind, and hydroelectric power sources.

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal Website