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Yesterday’s Energy Solutions Are Tomorrow’s Energy Problems

Today’s dominant trend will require future planners and investors to anticipate new challenges before they become systemic problems.

Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg
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In 1950, the entire U.S. power generation sector generated a bit more than 300 terawatt-hours of electricity. Today, the sector generates more than 4,000 terawatt hours, and wind energy alone generated more in 2020 than the entire sector in 1950.