The U.S. sees the transition to renewable energy sources by 2025
According to researchers from the U.S. Corporation RAND, crossing the United States for new renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar and wind by 2025 can be achieved without tangible investments. RAND study commissioned by the organization held Energy Future Coalition.
Today, renewable account for only six percent of the total energy used in the U.S. . In the RAND convinced that by 2025 this figure can be increased at least up to 18 percent, provided that the price of implementation and operation of renewable sources will keep a downward trend, and projections of oil prices in the coming years are correct.
In July this year a group of senators and representatives put forward for consideration by the U.S. Congress to draft the country's gradual transition to renewable energy. Officials hope that by 2025 about 25 percent of country's energy resources are renewable.
For a complete report in the RAND used a computer model that takes into account the 1500 different scenarios in the energy market. The key to successful and cost-effective introduction of renewable energy is also the cost of traditional minerals.
According to the most pessimistic scenario, by 2025 can only is achieved 6 percent increasing the share of renewable sources. Negative role in this prediction is possible 30 percent rising cost of energy use data and 50 percent lower prices for traditional energy sources, reports New Scientist.
If the projections do not take into account some new developments in the field of renewable energy, particularly renewable energy options for hydrogen and so-called bio-fuels derived from wood or cereal crops.
Note that the energy issue for the United States is quite acute, because the country is the world's largest consumer of petroleum products. As noted earlier this year, President Bush, the development of renewable energy will help the United States to get rid of energy dependence on the Middle East .
Meanwhile, the transition to renewable energy thinking in other countries. Thus, the chronic shortage of electricity in the country the PRC government to adopt in the middle of last year's decision to build the first coastal wind farms. Simultaneously, a partial transition to renewable energy sources said, and Taiwan .