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Decarbonising Electricity

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Hughes,  Nicholas
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Pietzcker,  Robert C.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Hughes, N., Pietzcker, R. C. (2021): Decarbonising Electricity, (Policy Brief), [s. l.] : INNOPATHS Consortium, 10 p.


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Abstract
The electricity sector will play a central role in achieving the European Green Deal target of a net-zero EU by 2050. The range of available low carbon electricity generation technologies and abundant resources, including wind and solar, mean that electricity will be a leading sector in decarbonisation, provided it can attract sufficient finance (see Finance Policy Brief). Electricity is also important for the decarbonisation of other sectors. Buildings, transport and industry will increasingl, switch to technologies that use electricity in order to achieve decarbonisation. The success of these sectors switching to electricity in order to decarbonise, depends of course on electricity itself being decarbonised first.