This article is a little jumbled, but not exactly wrong. In most of the article, "renewables" excludes hydropower; in another it includes biomass and hydropower

This article is a little jumbled, but not exactly wrong. In most of the article, "renewables" excludes hydropower; in another it includes biomass and hydropower. For the main claim ("Renewable energy tops nuclear power in the US"), the relevant data is the second page of this PDF: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10.pdf http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10.pdf Nuclear and renewables are each being consumed at a rate of around 8 quadrillion BTU per year, while fossil fuels are around 80. The breakdown within renewables can be summarized as: * Solar: 0.1 quadrillion BTU/year * Wind: 1 quadrillion BTU/year * Hydropower, biomass, geothermal, waste: ~7 quadrillion BTU/year (I only think it's interesting to break out solar and wind in particular because the rest of the article talks mostly about the huge investment going on in solar and wind.)