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Electrification: A Pathway to Our Climate Commitments
Author(s) -
Ramos Kevin Monte
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
climate and energy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2692-3823
pISSN - 2692-3831
DOI - 10.1002/gas.22210
Subject(s) - electrification , pace , climate protection , natural resource economics , climate change , business , momentum (technical analysis) , fossil fuel , economics , industrial organization , international trade , engineering , geography , ecology , electricity , finance , electrical engineering , biology , geodesy , waste management
Global momentum is building within the energy industry for electrification—the replacement of fossil fuel consuming end‐use technologies and transportation vehicles with no‐ or low‐carbon alternatives. Electrification is a response to broad societal mandates to decarbonize the energy and other sectors as a means to achieve national climate commitments. A debate is evolving across differing jurisdictions around the pace at which the market transformation is to occur and the ability of society to bear the costs of this transformation.