Correction to: Communications Earth and Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00813-6, published online 08 May 2023.

The original version of this Article contained an error in the second sentence of the third paragraph of the section titled “A reliable low-carbon energy system requires coordinated flexibility from all its actors” which incorrectly referred to TWh, instead of GWh, in the sentence ‘About 35 TWh of storage (of which 70% is low temperature) at weekly and daily time scales are needed in 2050 in CLI’. The correct version states ‘About 35 GWh of storage (of which 70% is low temperature) at weekly and daily time scales are needed in 2050 in CLI’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.