Conventional hydroelectric plants are expected to remain the largest source of renewable power in the US in 2017, but wind is nipping at hydro's heels, and may soon overtake it permanently, new figures from the Energy Information Agency (EIA) suggest.
In 2016 the amount of installed US wind capacity surpassed the country’s deep and long-standing base of hydro plants for the first time, thanks to 8.7GW
