Measuring Green Energy's Growing Role In The U.S. Economy

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has made revisions to the U.S. economy over the past few years in its latest update of the national economic accounts.   Prompted by economists, BEA has also revised up significantly the investment in electric power capacity and revised down, also significantly, the price index for power structures. The BEA economists worked in collaboration with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate the impact of the clean energy boom into the U.S. national economic…