Solar, wind growing faster than fledgling nuclear and LNG once did

Big contributor: An employee inspects control panels at a booster substation of Repsol Valdesolar solar park in Badajoz, Spain. The first commercial solar projects were built in the early 1980s, but are now making a huge impact on the global energy supply. — Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: Shell Plc recently published two energy security scenarios, its latest in a long series of thorough and (at least to energy analysts) memorable views into energy’s possible futures.

The first, called Archipelagos, is an extension of the world’s current path. The second, Sky 2050, works backward from an idealised outcome of net-zero emissions and a limited global temperature increase.