WSJ: The Biden administration wants 80% of U.S. power to come from clean energy by 2030. Do you think that is feasible?
MR. JENKINS: Our Princeton University Net-Zero America study charts several pathways to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. We see wind and solar playing a major role in all pathways, scaling up rapidly over the next decade.
Under the best scenario, wind and solar would provide about half our electricity by the end of the decade, up from about 12% over the last 12 months.
That would require building about 600 gigawatts of new wind and solar facilities, or about 60 gigawatts a year. That would mean putting the pedal to the metal, as the U.S. deployed a record of about 29 gigawatts last year.