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Read more at Solar Likely To Become Dominant Source Of Electricity Globally By 2050, IEA Forecasts | CleanTechnicaThe International Energy Agency says solar energy a combination of solar PV and concentrated solar thermal with storage is likely to become the dominant source of energy across the world, accounting for more than 27 per cent of all electricity produced by 2050.
The IEA says its core scenarios for reaching climate targets by 2050 call for 68 per cent of generation to be sourced from renewable energy, but in the (increasingly likely) event that carbon capture and storage and nuclear cannot take up their imagined shares, then the IEA has painted a high renewables scenario where solar takes an even greater role.
This might sound like some mighty radical thinking from what is one of the worlds most conservative energy organisations (it was established in the 1970s to devise policies to ensure a continuation of oil supplies), but in reality it is not.
Solar PV, for instance, is likely to expand way beyond even the IEAs most bullish scenarios, as a result of widespread deployment and continuing cost cuts. The IEA suggests that solar PV could account for 16 per cent of global generation by 2050, although this would require an average of more than 116GW of solar PV to be deployed over that time.
If the technology makes it economical then, yeah, it'll happen.
But it could also be driven by making conventional electricity so artificially expensive (taxes) that it can't compete.
Once solar becomes dominant you can bet liberals will find a way to tax sunshine just as they now tax health.
Solar Likely To Become Dominant Source Of Electricity Globally By 2050, IEA Forecasts
Read more at Solar Likely To Become Dominant Source Of Electricity Globally By 2050, IEA Forecasts | CleanTechnicaThe International Energy Agency says solar energy – a combination of solar PV and concentrated solar thermal with storage – is likely to become the dominant source of energy across the world, accounting for more than 27 per cent of all electricity produced by 2050.
The IEA says its core scenarios for reaching climate targets by 2050 call for 68 per cent of generation to be sourced from renewable energy, but in the (increasingly likely) event that carbon capture and storage and nuclear cannot take up their imagined shares, then the IEA has painted a “high renewables” scenario where solar takes an even greater role.
This might sound like some mighty radical thinking from what is one of the world’s most conservative energy organisations (it was established in the 1970s to devise policies to ensure a continuation of oil supplies), but in reality it is not.
Solar PV, for instance, is likely to expand way beyond even the IEA’s most bullish scenarios, as a result of widespread deployment and continuing cost cuts. The IEA suggests that solar PV could account for 16 per cent of global generation by 2050, although this would require an average of more than 116GW of solar PV to be deployed over that time.
If the technology makes it economical then, yeah, it'll happen.
But it could also be driven by making conventional electricity so artificially expensive (taxes) that it can't compete.
Once solar becomes dominant you can bet liberals will find a way to tax sunshine just as they now tax health.
China already made it affordable by subsidizing their manufacturers. I'll bet you didn't take advantage of that, did you?
Do you guys in Canada have solar?, or even sunlight?
The white house just installed solar panels. The electricity generated can power six light bulbs.
The white house just installed solar panels. The electricity generated can power six light bulbs.
The white house just installed solar panels. The electricity generated can power six light bulbs.
One of which is affixed in a position above the chair in the Oval Office to make it appear that The New Messiah is having an actual idea.
China is kicking our ass in everything besides natural gas!
China is building coal, expanding oil, building dams, putting up wind and spreading solar. China is growing at 7+ percent per year.
1. Big oil and its buddies. You won't get rid of oil completely, there will never be a solar powered airplane, and probably no solar powered cars or trucks or trains.
A Chinese made solar panel on every roof!
Chinese made batteries in the cellar where Onesey used to blog!
Yeah, I can see that as progress.
A Chinese made solar panel on every roof!
Chinese made batteries in the cellar where Onesey used to blog!
Yeah, I can see that as progress.
China wiped out every solar panel manufacturer in the world through their subsidies of their solar panel businesses. Of course Republicans took the opportunity to bash Obama instead of being the least bit concerned for American workers.
Fossil rules will not last forever. I expect that in the future most surfaces of structures built by man that are exposed to sun light will have some type of solar panels on them to collect energy. Even the roads will be constructed so that the suns energy can be collected.
This might be 2250 rather than 2050.
