By 2035 the global energy transition will reach a point of no return, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie.
By that year, says WoodMac, renewables will likely meet 20 percent of global power demand, up from today’s 7 percent. The combination of wind, solar and electric vehicles will displace about 100 billion cubic feet of oil per day, creating an “unstoppable” shift for companies and countries around the world.
“Stopping this transition seems highly unlikely,” reads the report. “It’s going to happen.”
Though several global power markets already claim percentages of renewables above 20 percent, WoodMac projects a wide range of markets will rise to reach that level in coming decades. After that, adoption of renewables accelerates even faster — with wind, solar and electrified transport becoming “the default choice across many energy systems around the world.”
Power markets will completely transform. WoodMac notes in the report that wind, solar and storage all have “high disruptive potential in power markets.”
A year after the 2035 inflection point, WoodMac forecasts a peak in oil demand, with electric motors accounting for 15 to 20 percent of all miles traveled in buses, cars, trucks or on bicycle. Electric vehicles could eliminate the use of 6 million barrels of oil per day by 2040.
WoodMac also notes the inflection point could come earlier as policy gets more ambitious, or if technologies such as advanced energy storage and microgrids take root earlier than current projections.
The report is significant in that it’s coming from an oil and gas consulting group. In September, WoodMac unveiled its new Power & Renewables team, assembled from its own global power analysts along with analysts from recently acquired companies MAKE Consulting, which focuses on wind research, and GTM Research.
The transition is inevitable and powerful. But WoodMac’s projections are still far behind the emissions scenarios that scientists say are necessary to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. In a report released by the U.N. this month, authors claimed the world needs to get 70 to 85 percent of its electricity from renewables by mid-century to limit warming to 1.5°C.
WoodMac’s head of global wind energy research Dan Shreve said, “We’re going to have a tremendous amount of difficulty” reaching the IPCC’s goals based on WoodMac’s current projections of the energy transition.
Want deeper analysis on where things stand? Click here to read more on how WoodMac’s report compares to the IPCC’s vision.
GTM
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 4:51 am
sorry forgot quotation marks around my content
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 5:19 am
Sorry again. It wasn’t my content either. I plagiarized that load of horse manure from the BBC. Just for shits and giggles.
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 5:23 am
“Sorry again. It wasn’t my content either. I plagiarized that load of horse manure from the BBC. Just for shits and giggles.”
Fake post
Dooma on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 5:52 am
Cloggie here is some more pro-solar information for you and other alt energy folk.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/seven-australian-solar-facts-to-make-your-jaw-drop-30669/
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 7:07 am
“Antius, are you going to moderate your discussion forum or even have a discussion board? I will miss your on-topic energy support to this discussion board. You are at the top in my opinion of energy understanding here. neder does not really understand energy fully. For neder it is about a message energy fits into. Anyone who lives in a fantasy world of a future of his own making does not have a deeper understanding.”
I would hope to continue discussion here on a more intermittent basis. I would plan to have a discussion board on any blog, as team based interaction is very important when getting to the truth of any subject. I am opposed to moderation on principle, even for opinions I strongly disagree with. Freedom of speech is something that either exists or it doesn’t. However, much will depend upon the terms and conditions of the hosting site. If they impose conditions that require that certain content is excluded, then moderation may be necessary. I will apply it as little as I can get away with.
I have the utmost respect for Cloggie and yourself. You have both provided content that I have learned from. Cloggie generally understands the political situation better than I do. His energy related comments are useful and informative, but he is prone to wishful thinking. There appears to be a hidden assumption that ideas can be argued into a better position, rather like a lawyer arguing in court. He seems to believe that ideas will succeed if only he can argue down the doubters. But energy economics doesn’t work that way. Real life will coldly shit all over our most beloved ideas, if they have deficiencies routed in physics, thermodynamics or basic human psychology. To understand the real world situation, one must be prepared to critically examine everything, even things we may be very fond of. That is never a very comfortable thing to have to do.
The truth is that there are far fewer options than we would like to accept when it comes to engineering a realistic energy future. Our situation is quite constrained by limits that we have no control over. Our culture requires us to think and behave in certain ways; our economy requires us to live and work in certain ways; our cities and transport systems lock us into patterns of energy consumption that are difficult to change in the short term; our legal and regulatory infrastructure has been built up gradually and will continue to apply and limit our options, long after the circumstances that created it are gone and it is nothing but an embuggerance to those that have to live by it.
In short, our patterns of living and the energy intensity associated with it are locked in and take decades or centuries to change. There are hard limits to what we can afford to pay for those inflexible energy services that our systems demand of us. New ideas that sound good on paper, like electric vehicles, renewable energy, new urbanism, permaculture, car free cities, 100% recycling, etc.; all advance with frustrating slowness in the face of the sheer inflexible inertia of the real world.
I initially thought that nuclear energy was the one thing we had up our sleeve that could be expanded rapidly enough to buy us several decades, by effectively flooding society with enough cheap electricity to drown out other rising costs and inefficiencies. But this is constrained by political and institutional inertia, not to mention human psychology, which are every bit as retarding as the thermodynamic and physics constraints that hinder the large scale adoption of renewable energy.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 7:12 am
Sock puppets everywhere! It looks like Davy finally lost all his marbles! ROFLMFAO!
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 7:15 am
Shut up dumbass, I know you are responsible for the hits on me. You are a friggin coward who can’t handle 1on1 confrontation so you thieve handles and play the puppeteer.
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 7:26 am
“Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere”
The problem with all of these ideas is that they all imply additional costs and energy expenditures, at a time when living standards are dropping and the energy cost of energy is rising.
BECCS is a good example. We start with an energy source that is more expensive than coal and pushes up the price of food by displacing cropland. We then add onto it an energy consuming step that will make those problems even worse; forcing us to burn more biomass, at the expense of more money and cropland, to sequester the CO2 from burning the fuel in the first place.
The thing ends up running up its own arse, trying to sequester (bury) it’s own shite by eating even more and producing even more shite that it has to bury.
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 7:41 am
I agree Antius. This is typical fake green talk that does not want to consider consuming less and discounts the economics. Despite that it appears some of the best strategies are organic and biomass related IOW leverage nature to do the work.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:32 am
I dont belive technology will save us, I have decided to start building my bunker.
I am stocking a couple of years worth of hash and lots of sweet treats.
Anonymous1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:36 am
It turns out Trump is not so bad, the economy in the U.S. is growing and the world is not ending like the antifas said.
I am dying my skin orange and have booked Stormy Daniels for next Friday night!
I like dem blondes yesiree!
JuanP on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:40 am
As a illegal alien mexican I am really greatful for all uncle sam has given me and respect real Americans opinions like Davy.
I am climbing over the wall tonight and have bought a Guacamole farm in Acapulco.
So long suckers!
JaunP on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:42 am
I didn’t say that
Anonymous1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:43 am
I didn’t say that
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:45 am
Hi JuanP, thats awesome!. I always wanted a guacamole farm in Mexico. I cant get in because of my past internet stalking crimes. Maybe one day I’ll visit and we will have some Caronas on the new farm?
Adios amigo and all the best in the future!
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:45 am
dumbass it is Anonymous(e)1 with an e
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:47 am
fake Davy post
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:50 am
Sock puppets. Someone with plenty of time, a modest brain and no gainful employment; is pulling all your pissers! Too literate to be Paultard. Doesn’t take himself seriously enough to be Boney Joe. Not Davy or Cloggie’s style. Hmmm. Havn’t heard much from Millimind aka ‘I am the Mob’ of late?
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 8:51 am
Fake post above * it was anonymous1 * and I love my new look. Orange is just sooo sexy.
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 9:03 am
I just cant believe the price of hooded jackets and balaclavas these days. The cost of confronting fascists on street corners these days is just ridiculous.
In the past we could get pepper sprayed in the face by police for almost no effort but these days its just sooo expensive!
Anontarded1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 9:41 am
^mm^ that’s bad news that inflation is hitting the gears. honestly i have to be fair.
if someone shoots spencer and someone else shoot back at antifa its fair game.
go at it.
Anontarded1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 9:46 am
^mm^ why u dislike religion for? fathertard francis is working on your side, no? anyways, fathertard francis has an immigrant background so he’s acting that way.
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 11:54 am
‘He went to Levy, who was kind of like a Jewish Godfather. Levy gave him as much money as he ever needed for electoral campaigns, plus a huge amount of media support, thanks to the Jewish domination of the media.”
“Unhappy with the way things are going, Jewish interests have launched an abortive attempt to oust Corbyn and replace him with a more Jew friendly alternative.”
“By that time, he will probably be replaced with a ZOG alternative, who can be trusted to remember where his bread is buttered.”
Antius, sorry I must have missed your above post.
What do you mean by ZOG? What’s up with the Jew baiting? What’s your take on the holocaust? Do you believe that the nazis where victims of WW2? And why did you choose the nick AntiUS?
Choose your words very carefully my friend.
Anontarded1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 12:00 pm
yeah whatever morrocco is not able to live without its ((supertards))
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 12:21 pm
“Choose your words very carefully my friend.”
Why? Are you going to come round my house and sort me out? 🙂
If you were actually Davy and not an impersonator using his name, you would already know the answers to all those questions.
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 12:33 pm
Charles Manson never murdered anyone. He just held rallies where he encouraged his followers to be violent.
Anontarded1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 12:50 pm
^mm^ oh ok thanks for teh info on chuck manson. sounds like muslim clerics. in that case supertards can deal with them easily. i’m not sure how really but they probably grab the most influential guy and say do what i say or you’re forced tarded.
Anontarded1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 12:53 pm
guys sinead oconnor hated fathertard francis so she converted to islam. anyways i been watching linsay lohan and she seems not making further inroads into her new faith
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 1:09 pm
“Choose your words very carefully my friend.”
RoLF. Are you a dumbass, or what? No one pays attention to you, besides to mock you for your endless delusional outbursts that is. Which, I suppose, IS attention, the wrong kind to be sure, but thats never bothered you at all.
Let me remind you(again) what your current success rate is at telling anyone here what to say, think or do.
It is hovering somewhere between 0% and nil.
dumbass
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 1:11 pm
After a long journey through mental illness, Sinead O’Connor finally hits bottom. Unless she is raped and stoned to death by her new ‘brothers’; I think we can confidently say that this is the lowest point in her life.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 2:23 pm
Fake post under my name.
The forum has been destroyed by millimind/mob.
Congratulations.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 2:34 pm
Richard Spencer discusses his private life with his alt-right francophone buddy from Mont-Real, Quebec:
https://youtu.be/X6n9CX_NJFE
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 2:36 pm
14 bombs to libtards… Chief Seattle did it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6321331/Suspected-mail-bomber-identified-Cesar-Altier-Sayoc.html
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 2:38 pm
“He went to Levy, who was kind of like a Jewish Godfather.”
Fake davy shit
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 3:09 pm
““He went to Levy, who was kind of like a Jewish Godfather.”
“Fake davy shit”
More false impersonations.
Davy did not say that. I did.
Antius on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 3:25 pm
Having fun, Millimind?
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 12:58 am
Having fun cloggant?
Antius on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:00 am
If the leftist faggots had to loose one of their glorious leaders, which one would they have discarded?
Who was tthe least important yank democrat targeted by the “bomber” ?
Choose your answer very very VERY carefully,
I AM THE MOB on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:02 am
I vote for the old bitch Hitlery herself. Even us commies cant stand the old hag!
If that bomb had got through I would have cracked a beer I must admit!
Antius on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:09 am
“If the leftist faggots had to loose one of their glorious leaders”
A fake comment (obviously)
Cloggie on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:20 am
Fake Antius posts at 3:00 am
Millimob posts at 3:02 am
Conclusion?
Put differently: given the low posting frequency on this site, what are the chances that if two short posts were posted with 2 minutes in between, that these posts were written by two different persons? Low.
Elementary statistics.
It was the same observation that lead to the near certainty that Davy was posting as the “Iranian Sum”. That must have brought millimind to an idea.
Makati1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:20 am
Donald Trump uses telepathic powers to convince old male strippers to kill democrats.
I have heard the voices myself but I am strong.
Cloggie on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:22 am
You are obviously the fake cloggie as you dont mention new technologee once in your post!
Cloggie on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:23 am
Warning to millimob and his forum subversion:
You are aware I am a computer pogrommer, right?lol
Cloggie on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:25 am
Forum tailspin alert.
JuanP on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:25 am
JuanP. I agree Cloggie this is outrageous. But how is the new bunker going?
MrsClinton on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:30 am
My boyfriend Bernie and I are offended by all this talk of bombing me.
If you dont stop my ruthlessly efficient agents will be unleashed starting with the unstoppable and sexy I AM THE MOB!
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 5:17 am
Sorry forgot “qoutes” around my qoute
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 5:27 am
“It was the same observation that lead to the near certainty that Davy was posting as the “Iranian Sum”. That must have brought millimind to an idea.”
Neder, like I have said “Sum” is classic neder stupidity and an example of your descent into lies and delusions. Your agenda is being neutered so hard by me so you have resorted to sock puppet lies.
makati1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 5:28 am
Funny. I supposedly posted the above Trump comment an hour AFTER the electric power went out here, for repairs. It just now came back on.
BTW: ANY posts with my name are fake until I get back from Manila in a few days. Children who try to destroy this site need to be spanked … or, if over 21, shot.