With Power Prices Surging, Can We Still Electrify Everything?

https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/electricity-prices-green-hydrogen

by Helicase21

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  2. The answer is micro generation with community shared resources (vs single home/business) such as solar, wind and big ass batteries! We could use building infrastructure (with existing wire tied into the grid) at arenas, community centers, gov’t buildings and schools to power whole communities with clean power. But regulations are holding this ‘community shared/owned power’ back from happening.

  3. Power prices are not surging. The value of the dollar is crashing. Adjusted for inflation, the cost of electricity in numerous jurisdictions is falling and in most is staying flat.

  4. electrification is going to happen, there are just a BUNCH of people that dont like a less oil dependant future and will continue to say and do dumb stuff like anti-electrifation articles or you have even dumber people that are pro-electrification but are so incredibly uneducated in the subject they only hurt progress. case in point: this article.

  5. We can, but every one needs to get off their high horse about using O&G in the meantime to supplement the hikes in power usage as renewables are being manufactured and installed
    Its not an over night thing and will take lots of time to do, but very doable

  6. Can’t wait to see the Whitehouse hawking gas powered toothbrushes

  7. Yes. But not if we can’t let go of fossil fuels. Renewables are dirt cheap and once installed everywhere, will create an abundance of low cost energy.

    The system must then be guarded against those middlemen who would try to gouge the consumer far beyond the cost of distribution.

  8. >The SCALE of the renewables revolution in China is almost too vast for the human mind to grasp. By the end of last year, the country had installed 887 gigawatts of solar-power capacity—close to double Europe’s and America’s combined total. The 22m tonnes of steel used to build new wind turbines and solar panels in 2024 would have been enough to build a Golden Gate Bridge on every working day of every week that year.

  10. We can easily if we incentivize people to install solar and whole house batteries and get off the grid where feasible. Let the big power production go to the data centers, factories, and other large electricity users. Let folks in homes be self sufficient. Make it easy for them. It reduces the need for cabling and transformers, etc. Win win. But no, these f’n power companies want us customers to foot the bill for their need to upgrade and improve their infrastructure just to pander to billionaires and plutocrats.

  11. This is a policy made problem. As an example Oklahoma cut our wind subsidies to the point it would be unprofitable and made it impossible for solar projects not owned by the established utilities. We saw massive surges in pricing during an ice storm a few years ago, and the solution was to charge the people more and not have redundancy built into the system or to build BBS projects or other alternatives.

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