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This is why there are new technologies being developed to try and improve the resiliency of the power-grid so storms have a lesser impact on its ability to function. There are three separate grids that actually come together to create the United State? While all three of these grids are connected, they also also operated independently. The addition of synchrophaser technology has helped to improve the reliability and quality of America?
This technology includes small devices that can help monitor the health of the grid, delivering data every second. This has helped grid operators find issues before they cause a disturbance in power and helped to reduce the number of power outages across the country. This is all part of a larger effort to bring more smart technology to America? Peter Fairley According to an email from one of the researchers that I obtained and is presented in the InvestigateWest version of this article, it went all the way to the current secretary of energy, Daniel Brouillette, and perhaps to the then-Secretary of Energy, former Texas Governor [Rick] Perry.
Steven Cherry And the problem you say in that article was essentially the U. Peter Fairley Right. He is committed to trying to stop the bleeding in the U.
His Secretary of Energy. And along comes this study that says we can have a cleaner, more efficient power system with less coal. And yes, so it just ran completely counter to the political narrative of the day. Steven Cherry You said earlier the financial benefits to consumers are unequivocal. But in the case of the energy providers, there would be winners and losers and the losers with largely come from the coal industry.
Peter Fairley I would just add one thing to that, and that is and this depends on really the different systems. But, you know, in a scenario where you have more renewable energy, there are also going to be impacts on natural gas. And the oil and gas industry is definitely also a major political backer of the Trump administration.
Peter Fairley Definitely oil. We are shutting down coal at a rapid rate in spite of every effort to save it. Natural gas is growing. So natural gas has really been—even more so than renewables—the beneficiary of the coal shutdown. Natural gas is very cheap in the U. Its leaders, under pressure from the political appointees at DOE, its leaders have kept it under wraps.
It appears that there may have been some additional work done on the study since it got held up in My sources tell me that there is an effort underway at the lab to get it out. And, you know, NREL researchers are feeling pretty hard done by and I think the management is trying to show its staff that it has some scientific integrity.
For example—and this is a huge one—that, in the U. And so you need to get approval from each of those states to transit— to send power from point A to point X. And that is a huge challenge. Peter Fairley Absolutely. Seams is one of several dozen studies that I know of right now that are held up and they go way beyond transmission.
They get into energy efficiency upgrades to low-income housing, prices for solar power And, in those, they provide the latest update on how much it costs to build a solar power plant, for example. And they also update their goals for the technology. Those annual reports have now been canceled. They will be every other year, if not less frequent. There are many studies, not just those performed by the Department of Energy that will use those official price numbers in their simulations.
And so if you delay updating those prices for something like solar, where the prices are coming down rapidly, you are making renewable energy look less competitive. Steven Cherry And even beyond the Department of Energy, the EPA, for example, has censored itself on the topic of climate change, removing information and databases from its own Web sites. The way I think of it is, when you tell a lie, it begets other lies.
And you and you have to tell more lies to cover your initial lie and to maintain the fiction. And I see the same thing at work here with the Trump administration. When the president says that climate change is a hoax, when the president says that coal is a clean source of power, it then falls to the people below him on the political food chain to somehow make the world fit his fantastical and anti-science vision.
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