IEA ruft das „Zeitalter der Elektrizität“ aus, da Batterien und Solarenergie ansteigen – aber die Emissionen sind noch weit vom Kurs entfernt

The world is set to make abundant clean energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges—but there’ll still be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency said.

“We’re now moving at speed into the Age of Electricity,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a media statement marking the release of the agency’s annual World Energy Outlook (WEO). Energy supplies worldwide will “increasingly be based on clean sources of electricity,” he said.

The real big problem is we still have really dated battery tech. It seems like super-capacity graphene batteries and other necessary tech is still just always “a few years away”.

We have no problem generating energy. We have trouble storing it usefully. Until we overcome that hurdle we’re always going to find that a dirty-burning lump of coal or a drum of oil is too appealing a “battery” for us to move off from it.