The U.S. needs to ‘get real’ on renewables

Despite pullback from the federal government, the U.S. is “persisting with the energy transition that was already afoot before Donald Trump was elected,” said Danny Kennedy, managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), and it “won’t be reversed.” However, the U.S. needs to “get real” to get ahead of the renewable energy trend, he said.”Leadership has shifted across Pacificific” to China, he said: The country installed 11 GW of solar capacity in July 2017, compared to the 16 GW that the U.S. built in the year.