ecogeneration: ‘Reach 80% renewables? Easy. 100%? Much harder…’

Published 21 Nov 2019

Never mind the climate, it’s the antipathy between clean energy believers and non-believers that is really heating up. But the world we inherit will be the world we have made, so instead of arguing about it Michael Liebreich starts conversations about the energy transition with a fairly conservative forecast of life in 2040: a third of electricity will be generated by wind and solar, a third of vehicles will be electric and the economy will be one-third more energy productive.