With the Energy Ministry having recently set a new target for Thailand to make a gradual transition away from fossil fuels to decarbonise energy generation in the country, recent research by two Harvard University scholars provides useful information for the policymakers. It gives a realistic assessment of the pros and cons of two renewable energy sources — wind and solar.
In two papers, published on Thursday in the journals Environmental Research Letters and Joule, the two researchers, David Keith and Lee Miller, report on what has been acclaimed as the most accurate modelling yet of how increasing wind power would affect the climate.
They used data on the locations of 57,636 wind turbines around the US along with other data sets to quantify the power density of 411 wind farms and 1,150 solar photovoltaic (PV) plants operating in the US during 2016.
