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future
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carbon-neutral
G The carbon-neutral future is
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E electric
I By Hitachi ABB Power Grids

D operates in more than 90 countries, and is headquartered in Switzerland. Hitachi
Hitachi ABB Power Grids is a pioneering technology leader. The company

ABB Power Grids uses leading open digital platforms to bring grids into the age
C of the sustainable energy future. Through Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ advanced
portfolio of sustainable, digital energy solutions, the company will create even

O more value for customers spanning the energy (utilities) and industry sectors, to
mobility, IT and Life (Cities) sectors.

M Electricity has improved our standards of and hydro to the grids; electrifying the

living since its invention more than two world’s transportation, building and
E deepen electrification in the name of electrification is either not efficient or
70 hundred years ago. But the changes that industrial sectors; and, where direct

sustainability will bring over the coming 30 impossible, introducing complementary
M years will go beyond anything that we’ve and sustainable energy carriers, such as
seen so far. Analysis comparing and
green hydrogen.
contrasting multiple recent studies of the Combined, these blocks will give us
B evolution of the total world energy system the foundation upon which electricity will
become the backbone of the entire energy
shows that global electricity consumption
will more than double from 20 percent (today) system and on which sustainable societies
E to over 40 percent of total energy demand by can progress.
The most efficient, cleanest and cost-
2050. And certain regions of the world will go
effective way to electrify the world is to
far beyond this level of electrification.
R build renewable energy capacity and to
harness energy from wind, sunshine and
water that nature provides in unlimited
S all come to the reserves. As a result, we estimate that
The forecasts
global renewable energy capacity will
same conclusion: the grow by at least a factor of ten until 2050.
carbon-neutral world
is electric. Challenges: overcoming complexity
and expanding the world’s grids
Electrification, powered by this huge
growth in variable renewable power
generation, brings a host of new
Three building blocks are stacking up to challenges – but two stand out most to
deliver this carbon-neutral electric future: me: tackling the complexity arising from
connecting larger volumes of wind, solar a greater number of widely distributed

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