The Renewable Energy Transition Is Running Out of Places to Go

Decarbonizing the world’s energy systems is necessary to prevent the world from warming more than 2º celsius over pre-Industrial averages – the cap that scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change – but achieving this kind of sweeping change introduces a litany of other economic and environmental drawbacks. Utility-scale renewable energy projects are integral to any viable pathways toward decarbonization of the global economy, but the massive size of these developments presents a number…