Uploaded on 2019-11-25 by Ramir Antonio

Future Cities Task 2 Nevada is joining the growing list of U.S. places that aim to ban fossil fuels from its electricity supply. Nevada becomes the fourth U.S. state to commit to 100 percent clean energy, joining its bigger neighbor California as well as Hawaii and New Mexico. The push comes as solar and wind power has become more affordable while the price for batteries, which can help make renewable energy more reliable, has plunged more than 80 percent since 2010. The state and local efforts are in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s moves to ease environmental regulations to help fossil-fuels while backing away from climate targets. Opponents of the green energy push have raised concerns about higher costs for consumers.Nevada currently requires utilities to get 25 percent of their power from renewable energy by 2025.There’s a lot of sun in Nevada, so it only makes sense to harness its power.Customers of Nevada utility NV Energy are going to be getting a lot more electricity from utility-scale “solar plus storage” power plants in the near future—an anticipated 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of solar power generation and 590 MW of battery-based energy storage capacity to be precise.