Do alternative energy sources displace fossil fuels?

Richard York ()
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Richard York: University of Oregon

Nature Climate Change, 2012, vol. 2, issue 6, 441-443

Abstract: Analysts implicitily assume that increasing renewable-energy generation by one unit displaces conventional energy by the same amount. Research now shows that, owing to the complexity of our socio–economic systems, each unit of total national non-fossil-fuel energy use displaced less than one-quarter of a unit of fossil-fuel energy use over the past 50 years.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1451

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