All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.

The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.

The short version

• If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right?
• That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move toward electrification.
• Fatih Birol, head of the IEA, discussed some of the concepts from the report the following day at the United Nations.

What happened

“Many, many years in the energy world, we had three choices in front of us. Shall I choose the most secure energy option?

Why it matters

Shall I choose the most economic energy option?

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