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A new perspective on decarbonising the global energy system
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An analysis of historical cost trends of energy technologies shows that the decades-long increase in the deployment of renewable energy technologies has consistently coincided with steep declines in their costs. For example, the cost of solar photovoltaics has declined by three orders of magnitude over the last 50 years. Similar trends are to be found with wind, energy storage, and electrolysers (hydrogen-based energy). Such declines are set to continue and will take several of these renewabl...
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- Published
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- Reviewed (other)
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- Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Publisher's website
- Article number:
- 21-04
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-19
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- English
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- 2021-07-09
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- 2021
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