# How much clean electricity do we really need?

- Institution: TED
- Department: Countdown Summit
- Speaker: Solomon Goldstein-Rose
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/solomon_goldstein_rose_how_much_clean_electricity_do_we_really_need)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

To fight climate change, we need to clean up the global electricity system by replacing fossil fuel power plants with clean generation -- right? Climate author Solomon Goldstein-Rose thinks we need to do much more than that. Replacement isn't enough, he explains in this compelling talk: we need to rapidly develop a new global system capable of producing 12 times the amount of clean electricity we generate today. He shares four reasons why we need that expansion -- first, to electrify everything in all parts of the world (not just the wealthy ones) -- as well as some intriguing ideas for how we can get there.

## Lectures

1. [How much clean electricity do we really need?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/solomon_goldstein_rose_how_much_clean_electricity_do_we_really_need/3ccd23f7a9df), 10 min (TED's player)