No, Renewables Aren't Going to Blow Up the Grid

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 18 March 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A new study from PJM, America's largest wholesale competitive energy market, once again shows that high amounts of renewables can be integrated without harming the grid or raising energy prices. In this week's show, we'll look at the real-world challenges of renewable energy integration, and ask why so many myths persist about their role on the grid. Then we'll take a look at what Minnesota's new "value of solar" tariff means for the solar industry, and ask if a proposal from environmentalists to buy out the entire coal industry is feasible. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of March 18th, 2014, thisacy, senior editor with Green Tech Media in our
0:20.1	nation's capital. Catherine Hamilton is also with me in downtown Washington.
0:24.7	You know her as our resident policy wonk and the founder of the Clean Energy Public Policy
0:29.2	consulting firm 38 North Solutions.
0:32.2	What is new and interesting this week, Catherine?
0:34.6	I hate to say snow again.
0:38.4	But let's just say there was not enough Guinness in the world to deal with 10 inches of snow on St. Patty's day. I tried to convince the kids that shovels and scrapers are toys and that cleaning the car is really fun. That never worked for me.
0:53.5	All right, well, Jigger Shaw's also here with us,
0:56.7	this time behind the mic in Wisconsin.
0:58.8	He's a clean energy investor and author of the book
1:01.1	Creating Climate Wealth.
1:03.0	What's got you in Wisconsin this week, Jigger?
1:05.0	Well, you know, I grew up near here actually in Northern Illinois, and so I'm speaking here at
1:11.0	a State of Wisconsin Pension Board meeting, but I got to see all my old friends.
1:15.7	So that was fun.
1:16.7	Nice.
1:17.7	Any snow shovels for you out there?
1:18.7	No, actually, you know, their snow is mild and tame.
1:22.4	All right, well, speaking of mild... you know their snow is mild and tame.
1:30.0	All right, well speaking of mild and tame, we are going to talk about the impact of renewables on the grid. And this week there's a new study from GE and PJM, America's biggest grid operator that we're going to talk about.
1:37.0	And it concludes that a lot of renewable energy in the system is really no big deal.
1:42.0	Then we'll turn to Minnesota, where regulators have voted in favor of a value of solar tariff.
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