--- title: Understanding Stellar Energy (2025) (English) description: Discover RethinkX's latest energy report, and how 100% clean electricity from solar, wind, and batteries can transform the energy sector by 2030, making it more affordable and sustainable worldwide. image: https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/Resource_Report_Stellar%20Energy%20May-min.png --- ###### share [![linkedin](https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/rethinkx_2023/icons/linkedin.svg) ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en) [![twitterx](https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/rethinkx_2023/icons/twitterx.svg) ](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en) [![facebook](https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/rethinkx_2023/icons/facebook.svg) ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en) [![email](https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/rethinkx_2023/icons/email.svg) ](mailto:?subject=%20RethinkX%20&body=%20Hi%20there,%20Check%20out%20this:%20https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en) #### Topic / Energy / Report # Understanding *Stellar* Energy ##### How SWB Superpower will create clean energy superabundance [ Download the Report ](https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en#report-form) [ Buy the Report on Amazon ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/106705961X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ILQ0T198U8L6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FT0oy5pfIsoC2fJaYHrXpFu2TBbnH6kEXOkzBDg13gCPvZQIvxeMUu9CBt7mu2KUxu9Gj5e9yYVV-Rax4W78WT1fMRiWwMC9yPcbEU8gC9BpH_YIPF6mi40_7OY8RaaVXjWB4dIAVSbcsC0xeeeh3qvwONR-6-Tj_PGIaTmfSBRWNsKhcyhnM0Icd1_n_9ol9vnI-KljU1wG2l2Na5Y_aFlCHM6AgQlIJrPXcgicnjo.Eq8DlCd6n7aeb_r94HAiJJvqoCXpIjF3WeqDpX7eMXk&dib_tag=se&keywords=understanding+stellar+energy&qid=1747357675&s=books&sprefix=understanding+stellar+energ%2Cstripbooks%2C273&sr=1-1) ![Report_Hero_Stellar Energy May-min](https://www.rethinkx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Report_Hero_Stellar%20Energy%20May-min.png?width=717&name=Report_Hero_Stellar%20Energy%20May-min.png) ![Hero BG - Stellar Energy Report 1-min](https://www.rethinkx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hero%20BG%20-%20Stellar%20Energy%20Report%201-min.png?width=2000&name=Hero%20BG%20-%20Stellar%20Energy%20Report%201-min.png) ### We are in the midst of the fastest, deepest, most transformative disruption of the energy sector in over a century. #### *Stellar* Energy systems will operate like stars, gathering a critical mass of resources and then igniting to produce energy indefinitely without further inputs. ##### About the Report ### Understanding *Stellar* Energy: How SWB Superpower will create clean energy superabundance This groundbreaking report from RethinkX explains how solar power, wind power, and battery energy storage can deliver a superabundance of clean energy at near-zero marginal cost to create Stellar Energy systems, that will fundamentally transform our world and help build a future where all people in all societies everywhere can flourish as never before. Today’s energy disruption is a race to the stars, and this essential report provides a roadmap for navigating the transformation, using analytical tools like the Clean Energy U-Curve, SWB Superpower Curve, and SWB Coverage Curve to provide investors, policymakers, and other decision-makers with concrete frameworks to understand and unlock the potential of Stellar Energy. **Adam Dorr, James Arbib and Tony Seba (RethinkX), May 2025** [https://doi.org/10.61322/USET4923](https://doi.org/10.61322/USET4923) ### Download the Report Fill in your details below to download your copy. #### **![Quote Lrg](https://www.rethinkx.com/hubfs/Quote%20Lrg.svg)** ### In order to safeguard against catastrophe in all its forms – social, economic, geopolitical, environmental – societies should immediately begin deploying SWB at scale to accelerate the advent of *Stellar* Energy systems and thereby achieve clean energy superabundance as soon as possible. **-Understanding Stellar Energy (2025) Report** [Understanding Stellar Energy References ](https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en#) #### Data sources ##### Solar Anderson, K., Hansen, C., Holmgren, W., Jensen, A., Mikofski, M., and Driesse, A. “pvlib python: 2023 project update.” Journal of Open Source Software, 8(92), 5994, (2023). DOI: 10.21105/joss.05994. Jensen, A., Anderson, K., Holmgren, W., Mikofski, M., Hansen, C., Boeman, L., Loonen, R. “pvlib iotools — Open-source Python functions for seamless access to solar irradiance data.” Solar Energy, 266, 112092, (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2023.112092. PVlib Python: [https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/](https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) ##### Wind windpowerlib: [https://windpowerlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/](https://windpowerlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) ##### Energy Demand Staffell, I., Pfenninger, S. & Johnson, N. A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales. Nat Energy 8, 1328–1344 (2023). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01341-5](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01341-5) Demand Ninja github: [https://github.com/renewables-ninja/demand-ninja](https://github.com/renewables-ninja/demand-ninja) ##### Population United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024. https://population.un.org/dataportal/ ### Get your copy of Understanding Stellar Energy [ Download the Report ](https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellarenergy2025.en#report-form)