Transitioning to Renewable Energy: Step 1

 Thursday, September 19, 2024 

Transitioning to Renewable Energy: Step 1

By: Karime Holguin

Here in this image, you can see how every year the electricity generation keeps increasing. It shows us how we are using a lot of power of our non-renewable resources that cannot be replaced. (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020)

We all know that using renewable energy is something that we all should be implementing but why haven't we been able to fully transition to renewable energy? The goal is to be able to reach multiple countries that will be able to enforce the use of natural resources. We can actually come up with a model that can evaluate a renewable energy target (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020). A reason why we have not been able to transition would be because renewable energy has been seen to be a very costly process. Countries need to have adequate financial resources to be able to benefit from renewable energy (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020). We also need to recognize that it takes a lot of space and specific areas to actually put the renewable resources to work. For example, Windmills need a large amount of land to work on.  Another focused part of this model is to actually renew the interest of renewable resources to countries. It is very easy to get a certain place or person to follow the rule if it is implemented in a policy. Due to the cost, we see that Australia and Ghana have not been able to move forward with this change (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020). A new model is introduced in this study where the old version consisted of evaluating ecological development caused by human damage and will be changed to be more focused on other things (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020). The new GEP model will consist of targeting renewable energy and generating capacity as well as investments (Afful-Dadzie et al. 2020). If we are able to combine our policy and be able to construct some investments with renewable energy, we may all be able to shift to renewable energy. This is the first step to continue with the change of our world. 

Citation: 

Afful-Dadzie A, Afful-Dadzie E, Abbey NA, Owusu BA, Awudu I. Renewable electricity generation target setting in developing countries: Modeling, policy, and analysis. Energy Sustain Dev. 2020; Available online 2020 Oct 5.