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At the UN General Assembly, Julian Castro was escorted by a plane into a restricted area.The $ 3.5 trillion expenditure and the overall future are unclear, and climate activists fear that the decision to fight climate change could be in jeopardy. Climate and clean energy groups held an imaginary meeting this week to demand action on the Biden climate plan, including a $ 150 billion clean energy program.
That costs money. A.D. In 2020, the United States recorded the highest billion dollars in climate change in a single year. Of these, 21 were spent, for a total of $ 95 billion. And that’s just the beginning: the billion-dollar risk line is clearly pointing upwards.
Climate change: We need to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050 to prevent serious climate change. By 2050, wind and solar use will be doubled.
As wind and solar power increase, we must accelerate. And it’s not just about building renewable energy; The grid should also be ready to control the waves in the new generation. It is no longer an American grid.
Most new generations are not stable, but they are beaten and blown by wind and clouds. As renewable potential grows, renewable productivity and valleys become higher and deeper. We need to soften the edges and valleys of energy needs to accommodate the extremes of the grid. That means the incoming sun and wind must rise Pair with a boom in dynamic energy use.
Simply put, dynamic energy is pure and abundant and uses more energy when there is waste and scarcity. For example, controlled thermostat programs allow users to automatically call their air conditioning service when driving bulk and environmental costs when the outside temperature rises and grid worries. These programs are a tool for matching high power demand and providing matches when loading grids. But they are still improving, and they have a lot more potential to use the grid than they do now.
For example, energy efficiency programs can encourage consumers to make better use of solar energy at midday and reduce their energy demand in the afternoon when there is less renewable energy. This can be done without cooling or cooling by pre-cooling homes, heating them in the morning and storing them for later use, charging electric vehicles when demand is low and renewable, and installing solar panels in battery storage.
In order to realize the full potential of energy-efficient programs, we must do everything electronically. That means replacing gasoline cars with AVs, replacing natural gas water heaters with heat pumps, and burning everything in our home with electrons instead of fossil fuels. This fossil not only reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissions, it connects everything we use to the grid, which can be used to match supply and demand more efficiently. That lays the foundation for a more sustainable energy system.
It also provides users with other common benefits. Homes with gas appliances are often more polluted than indoor air. Because of the harmful emissions of natural gas, children living in electric stoves are 42 percent less likely to develop asthma than gas stoves. Electric homes are not only healthy, they are cheap to build – it costs less than $ 500 a year to light a fully selected home than a mixed-use home.
For most homeowners, the initial cost of finishing electricity is still very high, and that is challenging. When a family’s hot water heater breaks down, they can’t stand in the middle of the home depot and systematically think about flexible energy. They are quick to return their hot water as quickly and cheaply, so they are more likely to buy the cheapest equipment than the most durable one. Few see it as an opportunity to switch from gas to electricity. Therefore, we need more incentive programs to encourage more homeowners to turn on / off.
Most homes are all electric and while flexible energy programs can fully maximize, they can have a total of 200 gigabytes of flexible electrical load. By comparison, this is about 30 times the capacity of the Great Quill Dam, or 40 percent of the capacity of all US natural gas-fired power plants. Many homes are all electric and equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, smart devices and EVs, and their living quarters will be the same as those of clean power plants around the United States.
That is an unknown but huge asset to a sustainable energy system. The quiet emergence of wires from our aging energy infrastructure is a vast, decentralized virtual power generation network that can provide the kind of “general change” we need to combat climate change.
Curtis Tongue is the Chief Strategic Officer OhmConnect, California-led clean energy program, which helps Residents of California will be able to reduce their energy consumption when the grid is under stress and will soon overcome it FastCo World Change Ideas Award. “
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