TRIPLE.
That’s how much we need to increase electricity production and transmission to electrify the American transportation fleet.
That is literally what the two trillion dollar Inflation Reduction Act was all about.
Two Trillion down the rathole, instead of using it to save Social Security.
What all the government loons fail to tell people when they write laws to outlaw the ICE and gas and oil power and energy is the cost of expanding the electrical distribution and transmission infrastructure is HUGE.
There is a report from MD BGE stating the cost to just expand the infrastructure is somewhere between 40 and 70 billion in just MD. That does not include additional generation. Likey import power from a coal plant in Virginia
“Modernize” is a very slight word when considering what would have to be done to the electrical system to get it anywhere near the unicorn spec of leftist dreams.
The goal of the liberal elite is to enslave us by turning us into serfs.
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Don't count on it. I know plenty of warmageddon libs, none of whom have solar on their own home. The true believers all believe it's best if other people do the "green" stuff (make the power companies figure out how to make solar and wind work, and the plebes just plug in for power as always).
I'm the only one I know personally who has enough solar to provide most of my power needs (80%, including charging the EV). And I do it to be more self-reliant, not to save the world from our carbon sins. That's the main reason it works well for me. Efficiency and feasibility matter because it impacts my pocketbook.
Build more coal and nuclear power plants! Keep up with China on core power.
What energy trnsition?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/what-energy-transition.php
To save the environment we must destroy it by covering all land with solar panels and windmills.
Once the petro infrastructure is compromised, it’s too late.
Such “transitions” away from energy could be considered a direct threat against the individual, the family, the community.
I always turn to brain-dead Democrat senators for energy expertise, especially when it's in a highly technical article written by the brain-dead writers at The Hill.
It's a constant trope of Democrats -- "our infrastructure is falling apart" and the solution is ALWAYS more federal spending.
The big problem is the move away from highly-concentrated central power stations (coal and gas) to highly-diffused, low-output distributed generation (wind and solar). Lots of money has to be spent to collect that power from those systems dispersed all across the country side.
The Senator should be more worried about "where is the power going to come from to convert everything with electricity?"
The far bigger question is "WHY are we rushing headlong to solar and wind?" To reduce the earth's temperature 0.2 degrees in 2124? It is utter insanity to destroy the worlds most economical and most reliable energy system for that hoax (as well as destroy what's left of our industrial base).
scam plain and simple scam
Too late for what?
i live in hurricane alley... i have learned to live without electricity and have equipped myself to survive... i stepped back in time and realized oil lamps and tiki torches are the future in certain circumstances...
Watermelons grow large in Vermont?
Regardless of “green”. Much electrical infrastructure was built-out after WWII with a design life target of 50 years.
There's the plea for urgency. That should set off everyone's scam detector. Sadly, 25% of the population falls for it every time. You can fool some of the people all of the time.
I doubt this twerp has the faintest idea of how much money it would take to rebuild the entire grid, needing probably triple the capacity it has now.