At the last climate summit in 2023, hosted by Dubai, international consensus could not be secured to phase out harmful fossil fuels completely. Instead, over 130 countries signed a pact to boost renewable energy production by 2030. While there has been impressive growth in renewables in the past few years, the world is still off-track to meet the goal of tripling renewable generation capacity in the next five years.

Producing more renewable energy is vital to enable a desperately needed shift away from fossil fuels, which are a leading cause of global warming. Renewable production is also vital for meeting the demand for electricity. Besides the imperative of providing electricity to more people, the demand for electricity-intensive appliances such as air conditioning is growing across our warming planet. Manufacturing processes have also become more electricity-intensive, and artificial intelligence needs a lot of electric power too.

Continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy will make........

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