Stanford Engineers Develop State-by-State Plan to Convert U.S. to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy by 2050 (Stanford News)
Report calls for nearly 20 GW of geothermal by 2050
Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, and colleagues, including U.C. Berkeley researcher Mark Delucchi, are the first to outline how each of the 50 U.S. states can achieve such a transition by 2050. The 50 individual state plans call for aggressive changes to both infrastructure and the ways we currently consume energy, but indicate that the conversion is technically and economically possible through the wide-scale implementation of existing technologies.
The roadmaps here propose 19.8 GW of delivered existing plus new electric power from geothermal in 2050, which is less than the sum of identified and undiscovered resources and much less than the enhanced recovery resources. The proposed electric power from geothermal is limited to the 13 states with known resources plus Texas, where recent studies show several potential sites for geothermal.
100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States (PDF)
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