Sun Day : September 21, 2025. Rise up for a sun powered planet!

Renewable energy technologies will make up 99% of all new electricity grid installations in the USA in 2025. Not because of some sort of 'left wing ideology', but simply because the numbers add up better than they do for fossil fuels and developers see them as the quickest and easiest way to see a return on their investment capital. So why is the current administration still stuck in the 1970s? Resources for SUN DAY : #SunDayPartner Main SUN DAY webpage http://crnt.link/sun-day-justhaveathink SUN DAY Events Page https://sunday.earth/events Action Network Page https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/sun-day-september-21st-2025 Help support this channel's independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Other Reference Links: Bill McKibben - Why Trump's War on Solar Power Will Fail https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/clean-energy-solar-wind-power.html Bill McKibben - The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/magazine/climate-change-activism-renewable-energy.html Lazard LCOE report https://www.lazard.com/media/uounhon4/lazards-lcoeplus-june-2025.pdf International Energy Agency https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/5b169aa1-bc88-4c96-b828-aaa50406ba80/GlobalEnergyReview2025.pdf NREL https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2024/index Berkeley Lab https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/utility-scale_solar_2024_executive_summary.pdf https://emp.lbl.gov/news/new-study-finds-us-wind-and-solar-generation-provided-249-billion-climate-and-air World Bank https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/sites/default/files/download-documents/sdg7-report2025-0804-v11.pdf https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2025/07/11/energy-efficiency-fast-tracking-affordable-energy-and-jobs World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/clean-energy-resilience-uncertain-times/ Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/AEO2025_LCOE_report.pdf Wood Mac report https://go.woodmac.com/l/131501/2025-06-09/34fh4v/131501/1749488483ziDv8ffZ/US_SMI_Q2_2025_ES.pdf EMBER report https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/04/Report-Global-Electricity-Review-2025.pdf Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/solar-may-account-half-new-us-electricity-added-this-year-eia-says-2025-08-20/ PV Magazine - US solar panel manufacturing https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/04/u-s-surpasses-50-gw-of-solar-module-manufacturing-capacity/ New Scientist - Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run https://www.newscientist.com/article/2495031-why-solar-power-is-the-only-viable-power-source-in-the-long-run/ Antonio Guterres full speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UVspI9Ip8 SEIA Website https://seia.org/news/new-poll-reveals-overwhelming-support-for-federal-clean-energy-incentives/ US Government Treasury attack on renewables https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-thomas-4b01054a_the-treasury-dept-just-released-its-long-awaited-activity-7362225803222290433-K2P7/ Why solar power is the only viable long term option https://www.newscientist.com/article/2495031-why-solar-power-is-the-only-viable-power-source-in-the-long-run/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-04-Solar-powers-es Check out UK initiatives https://power.film https://www.onezero.energy/