Fig. 5: Capacity additions and investment costs. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 5: Capacity additions and investment costs.

From: Targeted carbon dioxide removal measures are essential for the cost and energy transformation of the electricity sector by 2050

Fig. 5

a Global capacity additions and investment costs across scenarios. The bars depict cumulative capacity additions and costs aggregated over five-year model intervals. Stringent requirements under 1.5 °C_LOW and MODERATE scenarios necessitate increasing global capacity additions over the entire 30-year period, whereas the remaining scenarios reach peak additions in the middle of the modeled period. b Regional cumulative capacity additions and investment costs over the 30-year period under the most ambitious climate target and optimistic CDR assumptions (1.5 °C_HIGH). CCS carbon capture and storage. CCS here includes both fossil fuel-based capacity that is equipped with CCS as well as bioenergy CCS.

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