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Butch Criswell
One of President Obama’s promises was to increase renewable energy supplies by 10%, and reduce this country’s dependence on foreign oil, by the end of his first term in office. There is no reason why American ingenuity cannot in part come half way, and who is going to tie it all together. In the new economic stimulus bill, there is $4.5billion for smart grid activation. This will help tie together the wind and solar power to our national electric grid; we first have to modify the three primary grids we have currently. One of the problems faced is blackouts, when consumption is high. The conversations have been with two-way switch conversions for appliances and homes. These would be strictly voluntary for lower electric rates. This is fine, but we still need storage and the present way of doing that is not up to today’s standards. This is why congress put in monies just for this upgrade for all grid storage facilities. When electric cars become the norm, we will have to worry about peak time and low demand time for charging. Isn’t funny what the future will bring.
http://proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=39460095&site=ehost-live
By
Butch Criswell
One of President Obama’s promises was to increase renewable energy supplies by 10%, and reduce this country’s dependence on foreign oil, by the end of his first term in office. There is no reason why American ingenuity cannot in part come half way, and who is going to tie it all together. In the new economic stimulus bill, there is $4.5billion for smart grid activation. This will help tie together the wind and solar power to our national electric grid; we first have to modify the three primary grids we have currently. One of the problems faced is blackouts, when consumption is high. The conversations have been with two-way switch conversions for appliances and homes. These would be strictly voluntary for lower electric rates. This is fine, but we still need storage and the present way of doing that is not up to today’s standards. This is why congress put in monies just for this upgrade for all grid storage facilities. When electric cars become the norm, we will have to worry about peak time and low demand time for charging. Isn’t funny what the future will bring.
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