If the grid does not, outsiders - including industrial consumers acting to protect their individual electric supply - will.
POWER GRIDS IN THE US UPGRADE
Shale Threat Is Finally Hereīut how will the electricity grid handle this incremental demand from the transportation sector well as the needs of existing customers under the increasingly stressful conditions imposed by climate change? One obvious answer: upgrade and expand. But first as a society we have to decarbonize our electricity supply, and then sell decarbonized electricity to the transportation sector (which plan, if successfully executed could reduce carbon emissions by 40% or more). A key step we believe to decarbonize the economy. Automobile makers are in a very clear transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles.
Now let’s add another ingredient to the mix. Source: Energy Information Administration Major disturbances and unusual occurrences on USA electric grids And what is being provided at present in ERCOT is anything but.įigure 1. This is a big problem for any region because an increasingly digital economy requires highly reliable electricity service. Our point here is that any system that consistently fails in this manner regardless of the governance regime is designed that way- despite claims and protests to the contrary.
And this is the third time the electric system failed to perform adequately in winter (1989, 20). Their reserve margins are the lowest in the country (about 8%). The electric system in Texas was built it appears around the latter proposition. Or one could skimp repeatedly on maintenance, save a lot of money over the years and take one's chances on vehicle reliability. and reliable performance is reasonably assured. Spend adequately on repairs maintenance etc. In a way an electric system is like maintaining a car. (See Figure 1.)īut this is the bottom line. But we see no easy end of power outages that have plagued electricity supply in recent years while adverse weather events seem to get more frequent and impactful. These are variants of stories told after California’s forest fires and resulting power outages. At the same time a weaponized right wing media swings into action blaming wind turbines and the green new deal for Texas’s energy woes. We have just witnessed the damage caused by poorly designed energy grids-rolling blackouts, skyrocketing electricity prices, people sleeping in their cars and in one insulated room to keep warm.
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