Extreme Weather Keeps Maxing Out the Grid
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a very intense year for America’s power grid. Across the country, the electricity system just faced another stress-test as extreme heat taxed power plants and grid operators in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and New York.
Since 2000, outages across the U.S. have increased by 67%. Is the power system ready for tomorrow’s extreme weather -- today?
Stephen and Katherine are joined by Dr. Melissa Lott, a senior research scholar and the director of research at the Center on Global Energy Policy.
Plus, we’ll discuss a secret recording of an Exxon lobbyist bragging about the company’s efforts to delay climate policy. What does it tell us about the oil industry’s grip in Washington?
We’ll finish with a look at a new report from Columbia University: can we use natural gas pipelines to accelerate the low-carbon transition?
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| 0:00.0 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sungrove as a leading provider of PV inverter solutions |
| 0:04.4 | across the world. |
| 0:05.4 | Sungrove delivered more than 10 gigawatts of inverters to the Americas alone and 154 gigawatts |
| 0:10.4 | in total across the globe. |
| 0:12.3 | Sungrove is also providing energy storage systems to some of the largest projects in the |
| 0:16.2 | U.S. like the Chizolm grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:19.4 | Chizolm grid is a 100 megawatt standalone battery storage installation expected to start |
| 0:23.8 | commercial operation in the middle of this year, providing energy and grid services to |
| 0:27.5 | the growing Texas market. |
| 0:29.1 | Learn more about Sungrove's energy storage solutions by emailing them at info at sungroveamericas.com. |
| 0:35.6 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by SNC Electric. |
| 0:38.6 | New technologies are unlocking innovative ways to solve power-related challenges. |
| 0:42.9 | Conventional wired approaches may still be viable options, but they're not always the best |
| 0:46.2 | solution. |
| 0:47.2 | Today, non-wires alternatives like micro-grids can provide more sustainable, resilient, |
| 0:51.1 | and economic ways to deliver reliable power. |
| 0:54.0 | SNC Electric Company has provided innovative power solutions for over 100 years. |
| 0:58.7 | Learn more at SNC.com-slash-nwa. |
| 1:05.4 | This is the Energy Gang, weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world |
| 1:09.0 | of energy. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Stephen Lacey, welcome. |
| 1:15.6 | America's electricity system just faced another stress test, as extreme heat taxed power |
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