bonnett pasha suite. no interest in renewable energy like wind and solar are soaring it only accounts for roughly sixteen percent of the u.s. is electricity so the question remains on what's the best method to modernize our grid electric car rebates. and gas tax. are all examples of the government stepping in hoping to either promote a certain type of energy or discourage it and now is more households are utilizing solar energy surprisingly enough it's still not even close to being the majority just to be clear solar is not that still more expensive and robert murphy with the institute for energy research says that according to the federal government's predictions even by the year two thousand and fifty seventy eight percent of the u.s. is electricity will likely still be made up of fossil fuels wind suffers from intermittency issues so there are certain areas where niches a wind source can be very effective but in general you know there's only certain areas where the wind blows more than one point seven