Dave Reed.
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A relative sent me a video clip the other day of a guy in front of a Tesla charging station, which warned ominously about how much energy electric vehicles use. The point of the video seemed to be that charging stations draw so much power that the grid won’t be able to handle the increased load.
It’s an important question: Can the grid handle switching all our cars and homes to electric? And that question rests on top of another: How will the grid, which was developed originally for conventional sources of energy under a different era, operate with far more wind, solar, and distributed energy sources?
Let me assure you that utility executives and electrical engineers are spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to manage this transition while keeping the lights on.
I recently spoke about this with David…
