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"Imagine it’s 2050 and the world has managed to reach net-zero emissions. If
you deconstruct the electricity grid and lay it out in a single line, those
cables will stretch all the way to the Sun.
A 152-million-kilometer supersized grid is what’s needed to power a greener
future and avert climate disaster, according to
BloombergNEF. That’s more
than double the length of the grid today.
While solar and wind will undoubtedly be the stars of the energy transition,
new renewables capacity is useless without the infrastructure to transport that
clean electricity from where it’s produced to the end user. Grids will also be
at the heart of enabling the charging network to accelerate the electric
vehicle revolution, scaling up energy storage to complement intermittent
renewables, and powering the electrolyzers that split water to produce green
hydrogen.
The pivotal role of the grid is evident in the bottlenecks getting new clean
energy capacity connected. There’s almost 1,000 gigawatts of solar projects
stuck in the interconnection queue across the US and Europe, close to four
times the amount of new solar capacity installed around the world last year.
Over 500 gigawatts of wind is also waiting to be plugged into the grid, five
times as much as was built in 2022.
Put another way, if all the wind and solar farms in limbo were built and
connected to the grid, they would add up to more than the present electricity
generation capacity of the US."
Via
Fix the News:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
