Clean, affordable, reliable and safe is a good way to describe what renewable energy offers our families and communities.
A recent NY Times article detailed the amazing change that is happening in our U.S. (and global) energy systems. Our public utilities are responding to market forces and rapidly transitioning to affordable and reliable renewables (wind and solar) and away from increasingly more expensive and polluting fossil fuel energy.
“Since 2009, the cost of solar power has plunged by 83 percent, while the cost of producing wind power has fallen by more than half…Today, solar and wind power are the least expensive new sources of electricity in many markets, generating 12 percent of global electricity and rising. This year, for the first time, global investors are expected to pour more money into solar power — some $380 billion — than into drilling for oil.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html?smid=url-share.
Renewables provide an increasing percentage of our energy because of their growing cost-savings compared to fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and they make our grid more reliable than the fossil fuels vulnerable to severe-weather equipment failures:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/power-grid-failures-reveal-the-myth-of-fossil-fuel-reliability.
Using electricity to power our lives; LEDs for lighting, heat pumps for heating and cooling, water-heating and clothes-drying, induction stoves for cooking and electric vehicles for transportation dramatically increases our energy efficiency and lowers our costs for energy.  The benefits of renewables in cost-savings and eliminating greenhouse gas and other air pollution make this transition a win-win-win for our family budgets, businesses, our environment and health.
The multiple advantages of moving from fossil fuels to electricity generated 100 percent from renewables to power our lives is called “Beneficial  Electrification” helping every U.S. family and community. See RewiringAmerica.org to learn how the Inflation Reduction Act helps you benefit from Clean, Affordable, Reliable and Safe renewable energy.
Mike Overend
Two Harbors