«Unless we get extremely lucky and see the cost of new modular nuclear
reactors or NET
Power's
CCS gas plant somehow become cost competitive overnight, the current trajectories for wind and solar are by no means sufficient to carry us to the kind of deep decarbonization that we need,» Jenkins said.
CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized
power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on
reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload
power at terawatt scale.