Democrats can enact laws that require all-electric homes and automobiles, but they cannot counter the laws of physics, specifically Ohm’s Law, the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
When the current increases (increased demand by all-electric homes) and voltage remains the same, the resistance increases, limiting the amount of electricity that can pass through the electrical grid. Neighborhood electrical grids will need to be upgraded for all-electric homes.
The electrical grid must be designed and built in new single-family subdivisions to support all-electric homes. The number of electrical transformers per home will increase, from one 50 KVA transformer per four homes to one 50 KVA transformer per two homes.
And how much will it cost existing homes to upgrade to all electric as they eliminate the natural gas distribution system?
AB 8, 9 and 10 forces more density on existing neighborhoods, in many cases tripling the load / Demand not just on existing power but, water and sewer systems.
Most older neighborhood’s utilities were already overloaded. You can only get so much through a pipe or wire.
“Neighborhood electrical grids will need to be upgraded for all-electric homes.”
This. The electric system upgrades from generation to transmission to distribution will be vastly expensive.
And CA electric rates are already silly.
Are you talking about the increased current draw heating the supply wires which increases their resistance? If so, then that makes sense.
On the other hand, if you are talking about adding more houses on the grid increasing resistance then you have it backwards. Since the houses would be wired in parallel, the total resistance would drop as you added more. Once you add too many houses then either power company breakers would trip or they would be unable to maintain the voltage and would get brown-outs.
And many of the transformers are made in China.
Probably with a remotely operated “off” button...
Common sense shows that the closer an appliance is to ‘fire’ the more efficient it is.
Gas cooking stoves, gas heaters, gas wtr heaters , all LNG type gas.
Then gasoline to run cars.
Electricity has to be created by burning LNG or Propane, coal, wood, or Nuclear.
That extra step makes their all-electric world impossible to maintain.
Which is all part of their plan.
It’s gonna be Mad Max Thunderdome world.
Green New Deal is a train wreck idea.
No, I think you’ve got that backwards.
Resistance is a physical property of any given conductor, determined by material and geometry. If you want a cable to have less resistance for a given length, for example, you must increase its cross section. Or use copper instead of aluminium, silver instead of copper (specific resistivity of these metals decreases in that order).
For any given conductor, if you want more current to flow, you MUST increase the voltage.
You must decrease the resistivity of the whole grid to have more current flow at the same given voltage. EVERY conductor (cable) in the whole grid must be upgraded accordingly. Good luck with that.
Sorry, but this is incorrect.
The more load on a system actually DECREASES the 'resistance', thus more current.