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Understanding Stellar Energy

How SWB Superpower will create clean energy superabundance

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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), April 2025

https://doi.org/10.61322/USET4923

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Solar

Anderson, K., Hansen, C., Holmgren, W., Jensen, A., Mikofski, M., and Driesse, A. “pvlib
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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/

Wind

windpowerlib: 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

Demand Ninja github: 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/

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Topic / Energy / Report

Understanding Stellar Energy

How SWB Superpower will create clean energy superabundance

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.