STUDY SHOWS ALL STATES CAN BE 100% RENEWABLES BY 2050
Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050
Bjorn Carey, June 8, 2015 Stanford News Service
A concrete plan to beat climate change by shifting the U.S. to 100% renewables has been developed by Stanford Professor of Engineering Mark Z. Jacobson and U.C. Berkeley researcher Mark Delucchi. It outlines how each of the 50 states can transition to 80% renewables by 2030 and completely to renewables by 2050 and how those renewables can be grid-integrated. Their study, 100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States, examined coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and renewables usage under business-as-usual conditions and how it would change through 2050 in four sectors: residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. The assumption was that all vehicles and heating and cooling would be run on electricity. The calculation of how much generation from wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and tidal and wave energies would be needed was based on the use of presently existing technology. A generation mix was then calculated based on each state’s resources. click here for more
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