Net zero emissions is the holy grail of climate scientists who fear that the failure to achieve it by 2050 would have dire consequences, some of which are already been felt by people living in low lying regions and islands.
However the road to achieving this goal is a long and arduous one as the world shifts from fossil fuels to low or zero emissions sources of renewable energy.
Where electricity generation is concerned, achieving the first 70% to 80% is actually the easy part.
Economies of scale thanks to a massive acceleration of take up has meant that solar – both rooftop and grid-scale – has become a fairly inexpensive way of meeting our electricity requirements when the sun is shining.
Along with the use of onshore wind, lithium-ion (or other types) batteries and geographic diversity (having solar farms and wind farms spread…
Molten salt, pumped hydro, green hydrogen – non-battery energy storage is ready to take its shot
