Even Pandemic Can't Stop Shift to Renewable Energy
Parts Per Billion
English - June 17, 2020 18:23 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBNature Science News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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You would think that record low fossil fuel prices would spell certain doom for the future of solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy. But you'd be wrong.
At least, that's according to Albert Cheung, the head of global analysis at the research group Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Cheung joins Parts Per Billion to talk about why the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic likely won't stop renewable energy from slowly but steadily replacing other forms of energy in the coming decades.
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