3 Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy as Wind and Solar's Market Share Climbs

Something big happened earlier this year. For the first time ever, wind and solar energy surpassed the 10% mark in total contribution to U.S. electricity generation. According to the EIA's Electric power Monthly, wind produced 8% of the nation's electricity and solar added 2%.

This milestone was practically inevitable, but still remarkable when one considers that in 1990, the United States generated just 88 TBTU's (trillion British Thermal Units) of energy from solar and wind. Last year, wind and solar yielded 2,701 TBTU -- a 2,969% increase! In March 2017 alone, they produced a whopping 405 TBTU's.

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