Researchers: 400 GW of renewables per year needed to meet 1.5 C Paris Agreement

The cheapest, fastest and most cost-effective way to achieve the EU goal of climate neutrality by 2050 with a max. 1.5 degree temperature increase will entail a massive roll-out of solar, wind and electrolysers over the next many years. This was confirmed by Danish and German researchers in a new article in the scientific journal, Joule.

What will it cost to reach the goal of the Paris Agreement and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius? Is it at all possible? And what if we aim for two degrees instead? Will it be cheaper? These are some of the questions that researchers from Aarhus University, in collaboration with German researchers, have tried to answer by modelling the green transition of the sector-coupled European energy system, which also takes into... ... More: Official Press Release Aarhus University

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