Renewables
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You know, with the technologies we have today, we can save between 30 and 50 percent of the energy of a country in Europe, and we can solve half of the rest with
renewables.
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging
renewables
and nuclear, puts out CO2.
Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak
renewables.
And that continues into the future with the
renewables
that we're developing today, reaching maybe 30 percent of primary energy by mid century.
I would love to have something in the fourth place here, but in terms of constant, clean, scalable energy, [solar] and wind and the other
renewables
aren't there yet because they're inconstant.
You can do that by combining
renewables.
So you can't look at state-of-the-art technologies in
renewables
and say, "That's all we have."
These are just the latest indicators that China is at the center of a global energy transformation, which is being driven by technological change and the falling cost of
renewables.
But China is not just investing in
renewables
and phasing out coal.
Renewables
are one reason for China’s declining resource intensity.
Hoping to become a world leader in the field, China is already investing more than $100 billion in domestic
renewables
every year.
In addition, China is investing $32 billion – more than any other country – in
renewables
overseas, with top-tier Chinese companies increasingly taking the lead in global renewable-energy value chains.
And its investments in
renewables
at home and abroad can lead to additional technological breakthroughs that drive down costs for consumers everywhere.
But China will also face challenges as it moves from fossil fuels to
renewables
within a changing global resource sector.
Indeed, the bottom line of a new study by two American researchers, Willett Kempton and Cory Budischak, is that the combination of
renewables
and hydrogen storage could fully power a large electricity grid by 2030 at costs comparable to those today.
The plummeting price of
renewables
will drive business investment in low-carbon power, whatever the US does.
Moreover, China’s increasingly strong commitment to limit and then reduce its emissions is more important than any American backsliding, and Germany’s ability to combine stunning export success with rapid growth of
renewables
proves the absurdity of the claim that building a low-carbon economy threatens competitiveness.
These ongoing expenditures – feed-in tariffs to support renewables, outlays for climate-resilient agriculture, and spending on low-carbon public transport – have not yet been included in total investment figures.
While 621 million Africans still lack reliable access to electricity, innovations like renewables, mini-grids, and smart metering are bringing power to more people than ever before.
The first line of the IPCC’s press release declared, “Close to 80% of the world‘s energy supply could be met by
renewables
by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies.”
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, a famous convert to environmentalism, drafted a “plan” (which he named after himself) to increase America’s reliance on
renewables.
This coalition should be led by the major emerging economies (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China), which accounted for 40-50% of the $244 billion invested in
renewables
in 2012.
In Paris, CEOs from various industries – ranging from cement to technology companies – made clear pledges to decrease carbon footprints, invest in renewables, and manage resources sustainably.
In Europe, Royal Dutch Shell’s lobbying so diluted the European Union’s efforts that there are now no binding targets for
renewables
or energy efficiency for individual countries.
These risks include natural disasters, more extreme weather, efforts by governments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and the knock-on effect of a technological revolution in renewables, energy efficiency, and alternative technologies.
Rethinking Emissions ReductionTHE HAGUE – Whether at United Nations climate-change summits or one of the many “green growth” forums,
renewables
and energy efficiency are consistently regarded as the solution to global warming.
And, in the case of rapidly developing economies like China, renewable-energy deployment is not replacing fossil fuels at all; instead,
renewables
are supplementing a constrained fuel supply to facilitate faster economic growth.
Because of broad European skepticism about fracking, there is no gas miracle in the EU, while the abundance of heavily subsidized
renewables
has caused over-achievement of the CO2 target.
European Union countries and supranational institutions took decisions that helped to address “energy islands” (isolated and inefficient energy markets), while increasing the role of
renewables
in energy provision.
All of this contributed to reductions in the prices of
renewables.
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