The USA is likely to return to being the highest greenhouse gas emitting nation globally in the 2030s as the rest of the world decarbonizes and it doesn't.
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Global regions by percentage of energy services supplied by electricity by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy The fossil fuel industry gets this energy behind the meter from their own fossil fuels and they burn the fossil fuels behind the meter to produce the energy. That’s true for fracking, extracting and processing, for the most part. It’s true for some distribution as well. That energy isn’t counted in national energy budgets because no one is required to report it, as far as I can tell.
The effective ban on Chinese cars and batteries will cause the United States and its unfortunate hostages Canada and Mexico to lag on electric vehicle uptake at all levels of road transportation. More lagging on climate action. Average kilometers by rail and aviation for USA and Europe by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy Inc.
When it comes to heating and cooling, the United States is exceptional in the bad sense again. While China and Europe are hot beds of heat pump deployment, especially China, heat pumps have barely started moving in the USA. A few cities have banned gas hookups in new buildings, but that does nothing for the masses of old buildings, and it only covers about 3.5% of the US population.
Sensible countries like Germany have intentionally kept energy prices high to incentivize efficient use instead of waste. That’s been problematic as they kept electricity prices high as well despite among the lowest wholesale electricity costs in Europe. That has resulted in a distinct lack of electrification, but Germany finally got the memo and is now enacting much cheaper industrial electricity rates, US$0.06 per kWh.
The only approach that appears to have any national political will behind it is to throw subsidies at green hydrogen, a brain dead solution that will result in still very high energy costs, an incredible waste of electricity that could be used much more directly, more national debt, and an economy that won’t use it unless forced to, which the USA isn’t doing.
And it’s not a peak then a long plateau. China is continuing to electrify everything everywhere all at once and deploy 300 GW of wind and solar annually. It’s both growing electricity demand rapidly at the expense of fossil fuels as an energy service end point, and massively growing generation of decarbonized energy.
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