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Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-28/what-the-world-gets-if-u-s-electricity-becomes-100-green?sref=9GNALKrO
David R. Baker, Brian Eckhouse and Akshat Rathi
July 28, 2020
Today, 40% of America's electricity comes from carbon-free sources. The Democratic presidential candidate has made getting that to 100% by 2035 a centerpiece of his $2 trillion plan to address climate change and create jobs. Getting there would take an enormous expansion of solar and wind capacity in the U.S., backed by mass adoption of energy-storage technologies and hanging onto existing hydroelectric and nuclear plants. A recent study from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley determined that the U.S. grid could use existing technologies - solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric dams, and batteries - to supply 90% of its electricity needs by 2035. For more on this, see our press release at the Goldman School of Public Policy.