Not exact matches
And yes central
power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload
power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new
plant has risen by 130 % since 2000)
Centralized wind and
solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...
I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large
centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating
solar thermal
power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.
Off - grid
solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid
power from nuclear or any other form of large,
centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant
power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid
power.
Furthermore, environmental and security concerns have sparked increased interest in small - scale, «distributed» sources of renewable electricity generation like rooftop
solar panels, to reduce our reliance on large,
centralized power plants.
Receivers are the key components in
solar thermal parabolic trough
power plants, a future technology for
centralized power generation along the Earth's sunbelt.
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.