The Red Knight and the Dawn of the Solar Dragon, Part 3

On the next Probably True Solar Stories, we conclude the Red
Knight and the Dawn of the Solar Dragon. The evil King Maxwell
and his Red Knight, Goran, have started the Second Dragon War,
trying to replace the moody, but docile energy dragons with
fossil fuels. The dragons fight back with their fire breath. But
can they win the war without the help of solar power?

True Solar Takeaways


The world needs more solar and clean energy workers.
Transitioning to clean energy will create more jobs than the jobs
lost from winding down fossil fuels. In fact, The World Economic
Forum (WEF) estimates that the clean energy transition is
expected to create 10.3 million net new jobs by 2030, which will
offset the 2.7 million expected to be lost in the fossil fuel
industry.

Yes, converting the world to 100% solar and renewables has
some challenges. As mentioned, they include the need for:

More batteries for short and especially long-duration
storage

New transmission lines and related infrastructure, and
new utility interconnection infrastructure must be
built. 

Excessive and non-standard permitting regulations
increase costs and are slowing down the solar and wind
deployment.

The Duck Curve, which is actually an energy wonk graph.
It shows that as solar becomes more dominant on the grid, its
share of grid power goes down dramatically as the sun sets.
As a result, the need for batteries or other power ramps up
dramatically from 4pm to 10pm. 





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