North America Reliability Council Forecast

North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which oversees reliability of the bulk power system in the United States and Canada, is forecasting future electricity growth at about 1.5 percent a year -- down from the 2 percent acceleration it predicted four years ago.

NERC that over the next decade it expects 260,000 additional megawatts of renewable power to be added to the mix. Of that, wind will make up 229,000 megawatts, or 88 percent. Solar, it adds, will comprise 20,000 megawatts.

(Source: Energy Central)