The battle for American energy supremacy.

The US energy system has arguably never faced such an existential crossroads. Renewable generation sources like hydropower, wind and solar, backed up by battery energy storage are already proving to be the quickest and cheapest way to add huge amounts of additional power to the US grid. But the incumbents of the fossil fuel industry and their political puppets simply do not want to get out of the way. So, as the rest of the world accelerates towards the inevitable clean transition, will America really allow itself to fall behind?

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