Abstract

The US renewable energy transition re-started about a decade ago, leveraging scale-up and maturation of solar and wind industries that expanded globally after California#x2019;s pioneering wind and solar deployment in the late 1980s.1 Completing a global renewable transition will necessarily build on existing global, national and regional energy systems. But without engagement by the half million local jurisdictions around world, the transition will be as slow and uneven as it has been to date. Is there a renewable energy transition strategy that is adaptable to conditions around the world and is already working well where it is being applied. The strategy must be not only affordable but economically beneficial, or it will not be adopted in many cases until it is. There must also be a demonstrated way of financing its elements.