California and Germany are showing that major economies can relatively quickly switch over to renewables
This is amazing news: California has produced more green power than it uses for 30 of the last 38 days. That’s a record.
Critics have claimed for years that renewables like solar, wind, battery storage, aren’t able to power large economies fast enough to mitigate climate change or substitute for fossil fuels and nuclear. And yet California, Germany, Europe and many other large economies are quickly transitioning to renewables. Germany is over 50% renewable.
California is on track to reach 100% renewables year-round by 2035 or sooner, according to Stanford professor Mark Jacobson. This is the prediction I made in my 2015 book, Solar: Why Our Energy Future Is So Bright, on the green energy transition and I’m getting a bit tired of saying I told you so.
But, yeah, I told you so.
