Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Radical transformation pathway towards sustainable electricity via evolutionary steps

  • Dmitrii Bogdanov,
  • Javier Farfan,
  • Kristina Sadovskaia,
  • Arman Aghahosseini,
  • Michael Child,
  • Ashish Gulagi,
  • Ayobami Solomon Oyewo,
  • Larissa de Souza Noel Simas Barbosa,
  • Christian Breyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08855-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The technical and economic viability of renewable energy (RE) based energy system is understudied. Here the authors utilized a LUT Energy System Transition Model to indicate that a carbon neutral electricity system can be built in all global regions in an economically feasible way but requires evolutionary changes for the following 35 years.