Clean Energy Is Upending Today's Energy Industry

Clean energy has already upended the coal industry, wholesale electricity markets, and utility's monopoly power, but the disruption may only be beginning. Now that wind and solar energy are cheaper than oil, coal, nuclear, and even natural gas electric power plants around the world there's no stopping clean energy's momentum. 

Where clean energy could be truly disruptive is in allowing for new industries that will change the fabric of energy production and consumption. The concept of base load and peaker plants is becoming obsolete, replaced by dynamic loads and energy storage. Even the way we fuel up our transportation vehicles could be changed by clean energy. 

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