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Solar Basic Service – An Idea for Just Acceleration of the Energy Transition

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  • Desing, Harald
  • Schlesier, Hauke
  • Gauch, Marcel

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What if every person on Earth would get a personal budget of solar energy, free to use individually or sell to others? A solar basic service—similar to other basic services like public education, roads or health care—can facilitate universal access to energy, end energy poverty, increase energy security, and trigger further investments to become independent of fossil fuels. Acknowledging the urgency for climate action in the face of a rapidly shrinking remaining carbon budget, it aims at accelerating the energy transition in a socially just way. It also aims at reducing barriers, potentially triggering positive social tipping towards a sunflower society predominantly powered by direct solar energy. Furthermore, it may help to legitimize currently unpopular, but highly necessary climate policies related to restricting fossil fuels.

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  • Desing, Harald & Schlesier, Hauke & Gauch, Marcel, 2024. "Solar Basic Service – An Idea for Just Acceleration of the Energy Transition," OSF Preprints 2e6jn_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:2e6jn_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2e6jn_v1
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