Data driven: Rising renewables

Rate of wind power construction in the U.S. jumped 47.5% last year

Solar panel installation in Ohio. Photo: Wayne National Forest/Alex Snyder.

(George Barker is a journalism/CS major at Northeastern University. He’s worked for the Harvard Business Review and as campus and sports editor for The Huntington News.)

BOSTON (Callaway Climate Insights) — Even in a year marred by a pandemic, renewable energy projects continued t…