Electricity generation fuel mix

<p dir="ltr">The Tyndall Centre is celebrating 25 years of research at the midpoint of the ‘critical decade’ for climate action in 2025, amid unprecedented global climate change challenges. To mark this milestone, a report and analysis has been published to reflect on Tyndall’s early energy scenario research, drawing lessons from the past to enhance our future impact.</p><p dir="ltr">Energy scenarios have long shaped policy feasibility and ambition. Reflecting on past scenarios with the benefit of hindsight allows for an evaluation of assumptions on plausibility and outcomes. Here this is used to explore what can be done differently in response to the urgency of contemporary climate challenges. As climate impacts intensify, we ask how energy research can better align with the commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and raise levels of ambition to support those already on the frontline, as well as future generations.</p><p dir="ltr">This graph presents data for part of this project, and illustrates the electricity generation fuel mix across all the scenarios reviewed where data was available, to compare with the mix in 2022 (the latest year for which data was available at the time) and with 2002 which was the baseline year for the analysis. The scenario names are listed on the y-axis, and refer to scenarios that are listed within an <a href="https://doi.org/10.48420/29960147" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Excel File</a> in this Collection. The scenarios given a 'colour' as a title are the ones published by the Tyndall Centre in 2005, while the two 'LWCB' scenarios are also two that were developed by researchers within the Tyndall Centre and who are also the authors of this work and the related published report.</p>