{"id":8573,"date":"2026-05-26T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/massachusetts\/updates\/renewables-grow-11-in-first-3-months-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:54:34","slug":"renewables-grow-11-in-first-3-months-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/massachusetts\/updates\/renewables-grow-11-in-first-3-months-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables grow 11% in first 3 months of 2026"},"featured_media":62281,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[153],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[2],"topic_tax":[128,121,126,143,145],"class_list":["post-8573","update","type-update","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[121,126,128,143,145],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":153,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":121}},"featured_image":62281,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"Solar and wind energy continue to increase in first quarter, while coal output falls\r\n","hide_hero_image":false},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":null},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recently released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals growth of more than 11% in electrical generation by renewable energy sources in the first quarter of 2026. The electrical output of the nation\u2019s coal plants fell by 11% over the same time period while gas and nuclear experienced weak growth of around 1%.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Renewable energy has been growing rapidly, which is good news for our planet and our health,\" <\/span><b>said<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/people\/johanna-neumann\/\"> <b>Johanna Neumann<\/b><\/a><b>, Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America Research &amp; Policy Center.\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"To build a greener and healthier future for our kids and grandkids we need to overcome opposition that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/resources\/energy-transition-at-risk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threatens progress<\/span><\/a> towards powering America with clean renewable energy sources<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wind and solar energy, including small-scale solar most of which is located on rooftops, provided over a fifth of domestic electrical production during the first quarter of 2026. The nation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/resources\/we-have-the-power\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has the potential<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to power itself many times over with renewable energy sources. <\/span>","":null}}],"featured_content":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Renewables grow 11% in first 3 months of 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solar and wind energy continue to increase in first quarter, while coal output falls\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/massachusetts\/updates\/renewables-grow-11-in-first-3-months-of-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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