A Green Grid by 2035? New Report Says We’re Halfway There
- Power plants emit half of what feds expected 15 years ago
- Biden goal of zero emissions in 15 years possible, study says
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For those skeptical of President Joe Biden’s goal of achieveing a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035, Ryan Wiser has a word of optimism: We’re already halfway there.
Wiser, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, looked at greenhouse-gas emissions from the electricity sector last year and compared them with projections from 15 years earlier. Emissions were 52% lower in 2020 than the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted they would be back in 2005, Wiser wrote in a new report.