Live at MIT: The 2040 Grid

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🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This past week, we recorded a live show at the MIT Energy Conference.

The theme of the show: what the grid may look like by 2040.

As a topical show, we usually don’t know what we’re going to be discussing until a day or two in advance. But the theme of the MIT conference was "tough tech and the 2040 grid" — so we decided to take it head on.

To start, we’ll adjust our brains to the 2040 timeframe with some fantastical scenarios.

Then, we create our own plans. We will each outline a possible future for the 2040 time frame — Katherine will look at policy and politics, Jigar will look at the business environment, and Stephen looks at technology make-up.

Finally, a news circuit. We’ll provide some quick commentary on top stories of the day.

And we’ll end with our Free Electrons.

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0:00.0	The Energy Gang is brought to you by PG&E driving toward a clean transportation future.
0:06.0	In most of the US, transportation is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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0:42.8	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang,
0:52.3	weekly debates and discussions on the fast-changing
0:54.7	world of energy, clean tech, and the environment.
0:57.0	I'm Stephen Lacy.
0:58.2	Welcome.
0:59.2	We saw many of you this last week at the MIT Energy Conference. I was joined on stage with my co-host
1:05.2	Catherine Hamilton and Jigger Shaw in the wonderful city of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:10.3	The theme of the show, what will the grid look like by 2040?
1:14.4	As a topical show, we don't usually know what we're going to be discussing until a day or two in advance,
1:19.2	but the theme of the MIT Energy Conference was Tough Tech and the 2040 Grid, so we decided to take it
1:25.9	head on.
1:27.0	To start the show, we warmed up and adjusted our brains to the 2040 time frame, so we outlined
1:31.9	a few hypothetical scenarios to see which ones we thought
1:35.1	were more likely. Then we got a little bit more serious and we outlined a possible future
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