Publication - Matching Demand with Supply at Low Cost in 139 Countries Among 20 World Regions with 100% Intermittent Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) for All Purposes

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Matching demand with supply at low cost in 139 Countries Among 20 World rRegions with 100% Intermittent Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) for All Purposes

Publisher

Journal: Renewable Energy

Author

Mark Z. Jacobson

Published in

February 2018

Abstract

“The solutions in the current paper address these criticisms by suggesting several different solutions for stabilizing energy produced with 100% clean, renewable sources,” the university release states. The modeling matched energy supply and demand in 30-second increments from 2050 to 2054, based on anticipated global weather patterns, future energy demand, and variability in supply and demand over hours and seasons.

“Based on these results, I can more confidently state that there is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100% clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost,” said Jacobson, senior fellow at the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

“Our main result is that there are multiple solutions to the problem,” he added. “This is important, because the greatest barrier to the large-scale implementation of clean renewable energy is people’s perception that it’s too hard to keep the lights on with random wind and solar output.”

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