For anyone who doubted the production of renewable energy in the past months, you may be surprised to learn that May of this year saw a record amount of energy produced by biomass, geothermal, solar, hydro and wind sources. In fact, renewable energy made up 13% of the total energy produced! Although

that may not seem like much, it was a 7.7% increase over May 2008.

For anyone who doubted the production of renewable energy in the past months, you may be surprised to learn that May of this year saw a record amount of energy produced by biomass, geothermal, solar, hydro and wind sources. In fact, renewable energy made up 13% of the total energy produced! Although that may not seem like much, it was a 7.7% increase over May 2008.

What may surprise many people is the fact that the majority of the renewable energy production came from hydropower (9.4%), followed by wind (1.8%), biomass (1.3%), geothermal (0.4%), and lastly by solar (0.3%).

And since the share of renewable energy in the market went up, it means the coal and petroleum generation fell (by 14.8% and 8.3%, respectively), and showing no signs of slowing down.

One thing’s for sure: it is going to be another good year for renewable energy.