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Comparing the actual US grid to the one predicted 15 years ago Source: By John Timmer, ARS Technica • Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2021
Demand and carbon emissions are way down, renewables far more common than expected.
On Monday, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab released a report entitled “Halfway to Zero,” referring to a goal of a zero-emission US electric grid. The report’s headline claim is a bit bogus, in that we’ve not cut our emissions in half relative to any point in history. Instead, they’re down to half of where they were projected to be in a report issued back in 2005.