How We Need To Evolve America’s Power Grid To Enable A Clean Energy Future
America’s rapid clean energy transition needs more than adding clean sources to meet new demand or replace aging dirty sources – we must retire and replace dirty generation and associated infrastructure while supporting the new clean technologies. This means retiring coal plants, decommissioning pipelines, and shutting down mines.
It also means investing in new infrastructure like transmission lines to diversify supply, energy storage to provide grid flexibility and balance variability, electric vehicle charging networks and improved public transportation to shift away from gasoline cars, and smarter cities to use energy more efficiently.
Cleaning up the grid provides a foundation for cleaning up other sectors of the energy economy. In turn, these sectors can provide flexibility to the grid by modulating demand.
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