Smaller scale solutions needed for rapid progress towards emissions targets

Science Daily  April 2, 2020
Of the 45 energy technologies deemed critical by the International Energy Agency for meeting global climate targets, 38 need to improve substantially in cost and performance while accelerating deployment over the next decades. An international team of researchers (Austria, UK, Portugal, Canada) focus on the appropriate scale of technological responses in the energy system on the specific needs of accelerated low-carbon transformation, synthesize evidence on energy end-use technologies in homes, transport, and industry, as well as electricity generation and energy supply and go beyond technical and economic considerations to include innovation, investment, deployment, social, and equity criteria for assessing the relative advantage of alternative technologies as a function of their scale. They suggest numerous potential advantages of more-granular energy technologies for accelerating progress toward climate targets, as well as the conditions on which such progress depends…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

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