Cheap renewables could deliver 90pct clean grid in US by 2035, and cut costs

[Cinnabar]

The study, published by the University of California Berkeley and EnergyLab, finds that a combination of strong government policies and increasingly cheap solar, wind and battery storage technologies could feasibly deliver a 90% clean electricity share by 2035.

Setting this course would also see all the US’s existing coal plants retired by 2035, reduce natural gas generation by 70%, and prevent up to 85,000 premature deaths by 2050.

“On the path to 90% over the next 15 years, we can inject $US1.7 trillion into the economy, support a net increase of more than half a million energy sector jobs each year, and reduce economy-wide emissions by 27%,” the report says.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/cheap-re...t-costs-10451/

The USA has the potential of being a truly great place if not for the obstruction of the greedy and corrupt and their dumbed down enablers who never demand better.

[BartenderElite]

Now, if only we were able to plan ahead - instead of waiting until negative impacts reach a crisis level before changing behaviors and policies.

Oh, well.