Can You Run a Grid Entirely on Renewables? Ep208: Anders Lindberg
Can an electrical grid be run entirely on renewables, without facing black outs or wide spread power cuts? "Yes," says Anders Lindberg, President of Energy and Executive VP at Wärtsilä, on this week's episode of Cleaning Up. It'll just cost $65 trillion extra by 2050. Anders' team at Wärtsilä has recently published its Crossroads to Net Zero report, which argues that keeping a little bit of flexible generation on the grid will save huge amounts of money as the globe strives for net zero, while also speeding up the transition to renewables. The argument centres on what to do with the last fe…
