The attractiveness of renewable energy, even in the face of using gas as a bridging fuel to take off from where coal is being disused, is continuing to increase, the World Wide Fund for Nature senior climate specialist James Reeler has said.
During a webinar titled ‘Fossil gas: decarbonisation solution, detour or dead end?’, on December 2, he said Bid Window 5 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme had shown that the price of renewables was lower than what was previously forecast to occur only in 2050.