US Consumers Save as Clean Energy Booms and the Economy Grows

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By info@greentechmedia.comFeb 8, 2017, 5:29 am122 pts
After decades of technology development, business model innovation and policy progress, the U.S. economy is now decisively growing independent of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Since 2007, U.S. GDP has grown by 12 percent, while energy consumption has fallen by 3.6 percent, according to the new 2017…

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