Global investment in clean energy fell in 2016 — and that's largely a good thing.
The world spent less money to build even higher amounts of renewable electricity compared to 2015, according to a new report released Thursday. That means wind, solar, and other technologies are becoming cheaper, and in many places they're now cost-competitive with coal and natural gas.
Companies and governments added a record 138,500 megawatts of new wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources in 2016, the report found. That's up 8 percent from the 127,500 megawatts added the previous year. Read more...
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