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- 1From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUse of solar energy for electricity generation is growing in the United States and globally. In the United States, solar energy overall accounted for 3.9% of total electricity generation in 2021, compared to 0.7% in...
- 2From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe share of wind and solar power in the U.S. electricity mix grew from 1% in 2008 to 13% in 2021. Wind and solar are variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. Unlike conventional sources, weather variability creates...
- 3From:The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (Vol. 4. 6th ed.)Insolation is a word derived from INcoming SOLar radiATION. It is a measure of the amount of the Sun's energy that is reaching a given area of Earth's atmosphere or surface in a given period of time. Insolation is an...
- 4From:The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (Vol. 3. 6th ed.)Global dimming is the reduction in the amount of sunshine reaching Earth's surface. Scientists have observed both global dimming and global brightening, the opposite effect. Dimming is caused by an increased blockage in...
- 5From:The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (Vol. 3. 6th ed.)Ecological productivity refers to the primary fixation of solar energy by plants and the subsequent use of that fixed energy by plant-eating herbivores, animal-eating carnivores, and the detritivores that feed upon dead...
- 6From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUse of solar energy for electricity generation is growing in the United States and globally. In the United States, solar energy overall accounted for 2.2% of total electricity generation in 2018, up from 0.7% in 2014....
- 7From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUpdated January 26, 2018 As discussed in Part I of this two-part Sidebar, on January 23, 2018, President Trump proclaimed a four- year safeguard measure in the form of a tariff-rate quota on imports of certain...
- 8From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUpdated January 26, 2018 On January 23, 2018, President Trump proclaimed a four-year safeguard measure in the form of a tariff-rate quota on imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic ("CSPV") products that...
- 9From:AEI Paper & StudiesNOVEMBER 2017 Executive Summary Solar power is popular, for reasons that are a good deal weaker than the public discussion suggests, but not all solar power is created equal. There is utility-scale solar capacity...
- 10From:AEI Outlook SeriesRhetorical support among public officials for renewable electricity is broad and bipartisan, and the direct and indirect subsidies for renewable electricity from the federal and state governments are substantial. At the...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Paul MacCready (born 1925), known as the "father of human-powered flight," first gained fame when he won the Kremer Prize for inventing an aircraft powered solely by human effort. He went on to...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Known as the "Sun Queen" for her contributions to solar energy research, Hungarian-born scientist Maria Telkes (1900-1995) was one of the first to research practical ways for people to use solar...
- 13From:AEI Outlook SeriesDespite widespread political support and large direct and indirect subsidies from both the federal and state governments, renewable electricity--wind and solar power, in particular--produces only 3.6 percent of US power...
- 14From:WHO Technical Report SeriesBackground These guidelines set out the principal requirements for the safe storage and distribution of time- and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products (TTSPPs). They are based upon existing regulations and...
- 15From:Yearbook of International Environmental LawThis report covers the legal and other developments on different aspects of the environment in the year 2016. In previous reports, it was stated that the Bangladesh Power Development Board of the government of Bangladesh...
- 16From:AEI Outlook SeriesPublic policy support for renewable electricity--wind and solar power in particular--is substantial, taking the form of large subsidies both direct and indirect. A number of rationales usually are offered in support of...
- 17From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The energy the Earth receives from the sun, primarily as visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. (See renewable resource.) The term solar energy often refers to processes that use this energy to...
- 18From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSummary As a participant in several international agreements on climate change, the United States has joined with other nations to express concern about climate change. However, at the national level the United...