Mike Benn’s Post

Interesting read! The U.S. can make a significant leap towards a clean, renewable-powered grid by simply upgrading existing high-voltage power lines. This "reconductoring" involves replacing old steel wires with modern carbon-fiber ones, which can double power capacity and reduce risks like sagging that can lead to fires or outages. 🔧 Why This Matters: Speed and Cost Efficiency: Upgrading wires is faster and cheaper than building new lines, avoiding lengthy approvals and land acquisition. Clean Energy Boost: Enables faster integration of renewables stuck in the "interconnection queue," supporting wind, solar, and battery power. Climate Impact: A crucial step for reducing emissions and combating climate change. 📊 Current Grid Challenges: Outdated infrastructure slows clean energy adoption. New projects face long approval waits and high costs. 🏗️ What’s Changing: New federal policies streamline the upgrade process. Biden's administration targets 100,000 miles of upgraded transmission lines in the next five years. Embrace this "triple win" solution for the electricity system, utilities, and consumers, and let's power the future sustainably! #CleanEnergy #Renewables #ElectricGrid #Sustainability #ClimateAction #Innovation #EnergyTransition

“This solution needs to be rolled out immediately! We need to lobby our policy makers to implement this improvement now.” How a simple fix could double the size of the U.S. electricity grid. https://lnkd.in/gXYZUwkc #PowerGrid #ElectricityGrid #Reconductoring #PowerLines #ClimateChange

The U.S. electric grid must be expanded and made more reliable for future energy demands and climate forecasts! ➡️To date, transmission has been siloed and planned for the short term. ➡️As a result, today we suffer from reliability and capacity issues. ➡️This won't work for the next century. Can we make changes to our electric grid to allow it to serve our vision of a decarbonized future at the speed we need? We need multiple solutions to address climate change and to complete the energy transition. We need more #renewableenergy, such as #solarpower-- but we also need a better #electricgrid. At #PopularPower, we're focused on decarbonizing our energy infrastructur by helping solar companies deploy more kilowatts-- faster. Expand your knowledge and learn about what's going on with our electric grid by listening to this podcast from Climate One.

If you’ve ever gone without power for days after a storm you already know – the grid needs major upgrades. Think of our nation’s electric grid as a city. Now imagine the city only has two roads. Getting across town would be a nightmare. Transmission lines are the major roads that bring electricity from one place to another. We need a modern, reliable transmission system to keep the lights on across the country. And our transition to clean energy can only move as fast as the grid allows. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act there are hundreds of clean energy projects underway across the U.S. Modernizing the grid will help unlock their full potential to deliver good-paying jobs, lower energy costs, healthier air for our children, and a safer climate for our communities. That’s why the progress made today is such great news. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced new rules that will help modernize the electric grid much faster. Read more about them here: https://lnkd.in/eBy2cace

The electric grid infrastructure and the future

A failure of our power grid will disrupt our daily routines, threaten our economy, and endanger our most vulnerable. Policymakers must make decisions to promote reliability of our power grid to prevent this! Learn more: https://bit.ly/49vGPFk #energy #electricity #powerplant

The #Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) mandates top utilities in the Commonwealth to move to 100% #CleanEnergy by 2050. To fuel our economy and meet this goal, we must pursue a regional approach to #transmission planning, build new transmission lines, and upgrade the existing grid with grid-enhancing technologies (GETs). There’s a lot to do here, but the payoff is huge! Check this out. https://hubs.ly/Q02Blr760

The U.S. electric grid must be expanded and made more reliable for future energy demands and climate forecasts! ➡️To date, transmission has been siloed and planned for the short term. ➡️As a result, today we suffer from reliability and capacity issues. ➡️This won't work for the next century. Can we make changes to our electric grid to allow it to serve our vision of a decarbonized future at the speed we need? We need multiple solutions to address climate change and to complete the energy transition. We need more #renewableenergy, such as #solarpower-- but we also need a better #electricgrid. At Popular Power, we're focused on the former: decarbonizing our energy infrastructure by helping solar companies deploy more kilowatts-- faster. 💡I enjoyed expanding my knowledge on this topic by listening to this podcast from Climate One. They (Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious) have lots of awesome content on practical and engaging solutions to the climate crisis. 💡If you want to dive deeper, check out the book The Grid by Gretchen Bakke. #FERC #GetPopular #PopularPower #EnergyTransition

Do you need to lower your electric bill? Here's one of several ways Shelly can help: https://lnkd.in/e345mfdc - Load shedding automatically turns off less important circuits when rates are highest or you want to stay on solar longer before switching to grid.

Every where we go in Poland companies are looking a BESS strategies as a decarbonisation tool. The Polish Grid is launching a huge public tender. Renewable Energy develipers and gas station chains all want to get in front of the curve. The projected returns We’ve seen are atractive. It’s because of the price.