Nice survey of challenges. For follow ups, deep dives on the manufacturing of grid hardware and software would be cool. For a (mostly) US perspective, check ou

Nice survey of challenges. For follow ups, deep dives on the manufacturing of grid hardware and software would be cool. For a (mostly) US perspective, check out David Roberts' Volts, "a newsletter about clean energy and politics". https://www.volts.wft https://www.volts.wft Links below to episodes specifically about grids. But since our grid is the elephant in the room, it's touched on in most episodes. My noob TLDR for USA is: Overlapping jurisdictions are a huge roadblock. To build new capacity, you likely need permits and buy off from every state, county, property owner, and special interest touched. There's no federal plan to reform our currently siloed systems. Build Back Better addressed this. But because the Inflation Reduction Act was passed thru "reconciliation", it doesn't contain those "third leg" of necessary reforms. Huge disappointment. Predictably, progress is being further stymied by a huge reactionary anti-electrification noise machine. All the usual suspects are dumping money into astroturf groups and propaganda to oppose anything and everything, from windmills to induction stoves. NIMBYs have weaponized environmental regulations, created in response to past abuses, to thwart progress. Just like how "the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it", reformers and innovators are finding alternatives. Stuff like: colocating generation with consumers (industrial heat), embracing geothermal, and beefing up existing grids with storage. -- Transmission week: why we need more big power lines https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-week-why-we-need-more#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-week-why-we-need-more#d... Transmission week: how to start building more big power lines https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-week-how-to-start-building#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-week-how-to-start-build... Transmission fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-fortnight-burying-power#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-fortnight-burying-power... Transmission month: how to make the existing grid work better https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-month-how-to-make-the#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-month-how-to-make-the#d... Transmission month: two more ideas to quickly boost the transmission grid https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-month-two-more-ideas#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-month-two-more-ideas#de... The challenges of building transmission in the US, and how to overcome them, with Liza Reed https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-the-challenges-of-building#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-the-challenges-of-buil... What's up with Manchin's plan to reform energy permitting? https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-up-with-manchins-plan-to-reform#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-up-with-manchins-plan-to-refor... [Bay Area] Peninsula Clean Energy attempts to achieve 24/7 clean energy https://www.volts.wtf/p/an-energy-provider-attempts-to-achieve#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/an-energy-provider-attempts-to-achie... Utilities are lobbying against the public interest. Here's how to stop it. https://www.volts.wtf/p/utilities-are-lobbying-against-the#details https://www.volts.wtf/p/utilities-are-lobbying-against-the#d...