Researchers evaluate global solar-wind potential to develop a phased pathway to a fully coordinated system by the 2050s
The researchers studied how to create a network drawing on regions with abundant renewable energy potential to provide energy across and between continents to areas with high needs.
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They said successful global interconnection could improve energy efficiency, ease the economic burden of decarbonisation and be resilient against conflict and climate extremes.
“Theoretically, the potential of solar and wind resources on Earth vastly surpasses human demand,” the researchers from China, Denmark and the United States said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications last month.
