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01/08/20
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Originally posted by Homerun78:
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With all that is happening around us i.e trade war, global pandemic and geopolitical tension why even bother planning for 2040 when you dont even know how the markets are going to look like in the next 3 years since most studies out there has never factored any of the 3 material events currently at play. What matters now among all options available which is the most sustainable power generation fuel and wide scale infrastructure availabilty at this present moment to support a shift from coal to the lowest carbon sustainable baseload fuel. The easiest answer is natural gas. Renewables is a fantastic rhethoric and a policy game changer but as a wide scale complete replacement to fossil is still a distant pipe dream might be push back further especially during this uncertain period of time.
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It's not a distant pipe dream at all. Very large scale infrastructure is typically planned a decade or more in advance. As the report makes clear, large scale, distributed renewables need very little baseload.