Another year, another U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) assessment report that makes the agencies own forecasters look foolish. In the latest Electric Power Monthly report, which covers all twelve months of 2015, the EIA revealed that renewable energy sources accounted for nearly 13.5-percent of the nation’s utility-scale electrical output. This is up by more than 2-percent over 2014. But get this: less than three months earlier, in the “Short-Term Energy Outlook,” the agency predicted “total renewables used in the electric power sector to decrease by 1.8% in 2015.” The EIA’s record for long-term forecasts is no better. In fact, it’s consistently worse. As Ken Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign, recently pointed out , the agency’s “Annual Energy Outlook 2012” forecast that non-hydro renewables would provide about 250,000 thousand megawatt-hours of electricity by 2015. The new EIA tallies put that figure at over 300,000 thousand megawatt-hours, roughly […]