World to Pay to Turn Off Green Power Unless Grids Improve

The world will pay to switch off a huge amount of green power by the end of the decade — thwarting efforts to get off fossil fuels quickly — unless countries improve their electric grids to better integrate wind and solar generation.

Grid issues could cause the world to miss out on as much as 2,000 terawatt-hours of wind and solar generation, according to a report from the International Energy Agency which examined how countries cope with increasing renewable generation in their energy mix. That’s roughly the amount produced last year in China and the US, the world’s two biggest generators.