‘New normal’ may be far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected

If we can actually replace the world’s entire energy infrastructure in a single generation without even a major war or famine, I would gladly revise my views on the evolutionary fitness of the human race.

There has been a step-change in the growth of wind and solar power, which jumped by 45 per cent worldwide in 2020—and despite the pandemic, this year’s growth will be even higher. Even more important, hardly any other source of energy is growing at all, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 13, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—The “new normal," said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market forces. So fast, in fact, that it raises a different kind of risk (but he didn’t mention that). The good ...

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