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Bad Idea #50 "clean energy is too expensive for Africa" with Daan Walter
Clean energy won't work in the global south... right?
At a moment when the fossil fueled economy is cracking under geopolitical pressure, Daan Walter of EMBER brings the data that reframes everything: clean energy is moving ahead, in developing countries — it's already winning.
Walter unpacks EMBER's latest electricity review findings: for the first time, wind and solar absorbed nearly all global electricity demand growth in 2024, causing fossil fuel generation to actually fall. And unlike the economic shocks of 2020 or 2013, this is structural.
The episode covers the ElectroTech revolution's…
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