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In Germany, where nuclear power accounts for 22% of electricity production, replacing reactors with renewables is already viewed as a realistic alternative.
Indeed, according to a report by the German government’s Ethics Commission, Germany should be able to replace nuclear power with renewables in a decade.
The European Commission, too, envisages a significantly higher share for renewables in Europe’s energy mix.
According to its estimates, 3% of all new power capacity installed from 2011 to 2020 will be nuclear, compared to a 71% share for renewables.
Opponents argue that renewables are expensive and dependent on subsidies.
According to the European Environment Agency, 80% of the total energy subsidies in the European Union is paid to fossil fuels and nuclear energy, while 19% goes to renewables.
Indeed, it is nuclear power, not renewables, whose future in Europe presupposes continued massive government subsidies.
First, we would never have achieved today’s wind and solar costs without large subsidies for initially high-cost renewables (up to €0.40 per kWh in Germany).
But the cost of these technologies has not fallen at anything like the pace achieved in renewables, and current investment levels are insufficient to drive self-reinforcing cost declines.
Public policy support and cross-industry cooperation, simultaneously applied in many countries, are needed to replicate the progress achieved in renewables.
Finally, while renewables costs will inevitably continue to decline, fossil-fuel prices probably will fall, too, and for the same reason – dramatic technical progress.
As a result, a cleaner, fairer, and more sustainable future, powered entirely by renewables, is starting to become a real option.
(The company’s goal, set by Scott, is to rely entirely on renewables.)
Renewables have been pursued with a sort of missionary zeal, regardless of their effectiveness or feasibility.
And the EU’s “20/20/20 targets” – a 20% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, a 20% share for renewables, and a 20% increase in energy efficiency, all by 2020 – was more of a mantra than a policy.
As the Energy Transition Commission set out in its April 2017 report Better Energy-Greater Prosperity, power systems that are 85-90% dependent on intermittent renewables will be able by the 2030s to produce power at an all-in cost – including storage and any flexible back-up required – below that of fossil fuels.
Indeed, 2017 may mark the end of the region’s nuclear love affair – and the start of a new one with renewables.
Last month, Moon, who was elected in May and campaigned on a nuclear-free agenda, called for an increase in the use of renewables, to 20% of the country’s total power generation, by 2030, up from the current 5%.
Today, coal and natural gas provide more than two thirds of the country’s electricity needs, with renewables accounting for 5%.
Tsai has called for the share of renewables to increase to 20% over the next eight years, with the capacity coming primarily from solar and offshore wind.
Significant declines in start-up costs and energy-storage prices, as well as improved battery performance, have made renewables more competitive than ever.
As Francesco Starace, Chief Executive of Enel, Europe’s largest energy company by market capitalization, told the Financial Times in June, renewables are becoming the “cheapest and most convenient way of producing electricity.”
But by joining the renewables revolution, Taiwan and South Korea will make it easier for other regional players to enter the market, because expanded investment opportunities will increase competitiveness and further drive down already declining costs.
The introduction of competition to the national monopolies in both countries would also speed the shift to renewables.
Such a single voice would not erode individual countries’ sovereign right to determine their energy production mix i.e. balance between conventional, renewables and nuclear, as some Eurosceptics claim; it is simply common sense between countries determined to defend their common security.
Again, the EU stands out for its forward-thinking stance, playing a central role – along with its member states – in brokering the deal, which requires airlines to offset the growth of their CO2 emissions from 2020 by purchasing “emission units” generated by emissions-reducing projects in other sectors, like renewables.
In China, renewables are expanding rapidly, and coal consumption fell by 2.9% year on year in 2014.
If the new levy were added to existing fees, it would strengthen the price signal driving a shift away from fossil fuels and toward renewables.
But higher population density makes it more difficult and expensive to rely on renewables alone.
In some parts of the country, such as the Rajasthan desert, it will be possible to develop large solar facilities; elsewhere, land availability might limit feasible renewables development.
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