Renewable energy will become the world’s number one electricity source by 2025 thanks largely to a surge in wind and solar.
. “The good news is that renewables and nuclear power are growing quickly enough to meet almost all this additional appetite, suggesting we are close to a tipping point for power sector emissions. Governments now need to enable low-emissions sources to grow even faster and drive down emissions so that the world can ensure secure electricity supplies while reaching climate goals.”
The report asserts that “in a decarbonized electricity sector, dispatchable renewables, such as hydro reservoir, geothermal, and biomass plants, will be essential for complementing” wind and solar. However, Mark Z. Jacobson — a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University in California and author of— argues that “we have 95% of the technologies we need” to transition to fossil-free electricity.
“So, if we have almost all that we need, why do we need ‘miracle technologies’ being proposed ad nauseam to solve these problems?” Jacobson asked in aIEA says renewables will “dominate” electricity demand growth in next three years. Nuclear not even close.
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