Exclusive: Renewable energies to leap, costs fall: U.N. (IPCC new report coming out)

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/04/us-energy-ipcc-idUSTRE74325N20110504

Exclusive: Renewable energies to leap, costs fall: U.N.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO | Wed May 4, 2011 12:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - Renewable energies such as wind or solar power are set to surge by 2050, and expected advances in technology will bring significant cost cuts, a draft United Nations report showed on Wednesday.

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The 30-page summary for policymakers, part of a Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources, will be published on May 9.

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Most of the 164 scenarios showed renewable energies would rise to supply above 100 exajoules (EJ) a year by 2050, reaching 200-400 EJ a year in many scenarios. That is up from 64 EJ in 2008, when world supply was 492 EJ, it said.

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Renewables' share of total energy supply varied widely in the scenarios, reaching up to 77 percent of total energy supply by 2050.

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The draft was written before Fukushima, don't know if it will be reflected in the final report.