The IEA published its World Energy Outlook 2020
("WEO") on Friday (with the linked Carbon Brief summary
following quickly on its heels). As well as outlining the
uncertainty and turbulence caused by Covid-19, the IEA also reports
on a structural decline of coal and a major rise in renewables.
Whilst the WEO contains detailed analysis of the global energy
system, or specific note for landowners may be both the
abandonment of any modelling around a "business as usual"
scenario, which reaffirms the changes that are likely to be coming
with the agricultural and environmental bills when they arrive and
also the emphasis that the "cheapest electricity in
history" is now offered by the world's
best solar power schemes.
