Challenges of the clean energy transition
Posted on October 22, 2021 by curryja
by Judith Curry
This morning I participated Conference on Energy and Decarbonization – A New Jersey Business Perspective.
https://njbia.regfox.com/energy-summit.
UPDATE: full recording of the conference [here]
New Jersey is a leader among U.S. states in aggressively tackling the transition to cleaner sources of energy (see the New Jersey Energy Master Plan). So far, they have been doing a better job than California. The near term challenges of the transition to clean energy are described in this article in the City Journal
New Jersey has a pretty good mix of electricity generation sources: 57.2% natural gas, 37.4% nuclear, 1.6% solar, 1.5% coal, 1.1% biomass, 0.9% non-biogenic waste, and 0.1% hydroelectric & wind.New Jersey’s renewable portfolio standard was updated in 2018 to require that 21% of electricity be from renewable sources by 2021, 35% by 2025, and 50% by 2030.
This Conference was a pretty interesting event. Here is the agenda and list of speakers:
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/22/challenges-of-the-clean-energy-transition/
