Solar Energy to reach 25% of total world energy generation by 2030

Created by InquilineKea on 2015-07-11; known on 2031-01-01

• InquilineKea estimated 50% on 2015-07-11
• JoshuaZ estimated 55% on 2015-07-11
• btrettel estimated 10% and said “You all seem overconfident. The US EIA’s projection suggests all renewable sources will only make up about 15% of total energy in 2040. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=527&t=1” on 2015-07-11
• sdr said “Current energy consumption, worldwide: 155,505 TWh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption );” on 2015-07-14
• sdr said “of which solar: 11 TWh ( http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=6&pid=116&aid=12&cid=regions&syid=2008&eyid=2012&unit=BKWH ), that is 0.007% ” on 2015-07-14
• sdr estimated 5% and said “looking at change-delta @ wikipedia, no power source made a 20% penetration-shift within 15 years, not likely” on 2015-07-14
• JoshuaZ estimated 25% and said “Adjusting based on points by sdr and btrettel. ” on 2015-07-14
• silacoid estimated 0% and said “Solar energy doesn’t have sufficient potential to do that. The only chance of this happening is a total energy crash where total consumption is reduced to a tiny fraction, and this won’t happen.” on 2015-07-24
• themusicgod1 estimated 45% on 2016-07-10