Then there's a small-technology approach: solar power, wind energy and distributed generation.

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In 2011, the three utilities collectively secured 20.6% of the electricity sold to retail customers from solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable power generation.

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The other thing that we have to do is look at things like wind power and solar power and the next generation of electric vehicles.

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Chu has long been on record as a staunch advocate of reducing the nation's carbon emissions by vastly expanding generation from wind and solar power.

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The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.

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Yet for all the hoopla that renewable energy receives, wind and solar account for just 6% of total U.S. power generation.

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Although Japanese firms are leaders in green technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal, these sources account for only 1% of all power generation.

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