Imagine California Powered By Clean, Renewable Energy

August 29, 2014- A new Stanford study maps out the possibility of a smog-free Los Angeles, where electric cars drive silently on freeways, solar panels blanket rooftops and power plants run on heat from beneath the Earth, or from the wind and sun.

Published in Energy, the comprehensive study outlines a plan for sustainable, inexpensive and reliable energy supply in California that would create a healthier environment, generate tens of thousands of jobs, stabilize energy prices, and save billions of dollars in pollution-related health costs. It details how the state could fulfill all of its transportation, electric power, industry, and heating and cooling energy needs with renewable energy by 2050. 

The study also calculates the number of new devices and jobs created, land and ocean areas required, and policies needed for infrastructure changes. It concludes that, while a wind, water and sunlight conversion may result in initial capital cost increases, these costs would be more than made up for over time by the elimination of fuel costs. The overall switch would reduce California's end-use power demand by about 44 percent and stabilize energy prices, since fuel costs would be zero.

It would also create a net gain, after fossil-fuel and nuclear energy job losses are accounted for, of about 220,000 manufacturing, installation and technology construction and operation jobs.

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