, /PRNewswire/ – A new climate modeling tool is predicting a seismic shift in energy, spelling out how over half of global energy demand will be met by solar power by 2035.
The S-Curve model, developed by physicist and solar industry pioneer, Andrew Birch, reveals that a clean transition is inevitable, on current known trends.
“On current growth trends, solar is on track to displace 50% of traditional energy supply within a decade—this should scare you if you’re still financing coal, oil or gas,” says Birch, who has started some of the leading global solar companies over the last 20 years.
Birch is challenging decades of inaccurate solar energy forecasting, correcting a flawed equation at the heart of projections: he says the metric of primary energy is only applicable to fossil fuels, as over half of fossil fuel energy is wasted when it is burned. The S-Curve uses delivered energy as the correct metric, revealing that when we are …