Clean Energy's Powerful Momentum
The U.S. energy transition is arriving faster than you think. But the move toward solar is global: a recent study from Nature expects solar to be the cheapest source of electricity in almost all countries by 2027. Along with its arrival, clean energy prices are expected to become cheaper than fossil fuel options.
Even Big Oil companies, like BP and Shell, have begun emphasizing their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
“There is a lot of policy that still needs to be written,” Says Femke Nijsse, lecturer at University of Exeter. But “we can repeat the success of solar in different sectors.”
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Cover photo by Simon Simard