Home » Newsroom » Why Renewable Electricity Powers Decarbonization — and Pays Off Plugging in more stuff can slash Cascadia’s climate-warming emissions at modest cost. But that means moving much faster. Amid the 1970s Arab oil embargo, a gasoline company’s TV ads showed an aging wooden windmill. As the wind died, it slowed to stillness. The ad asked: “But what do you do when the wind stops?” For the next several decades fossil fuel providers continued to denigrate renewable energy. Big power utilities piled on with claims that fluctuating solar and wind power could black out the g...