“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
What PolitiFact found
Give this a haircut for batteries, which could be charged with electricity from fossil fuels. And remember, renewables only account for about 10% of the total US electricity capacity.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 27 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 January 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/01/27/remarks-by-president…
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