As energy transition proceeds we\u2019ll need to move well beyond decarbonizing electricity generation and into transportation and space heating powered by renewables. But we\u2019re only beginning to figure out the pathways by which we might do that, and since each region has its own particular sources of renewable energy and its own particular needs for energy, the solutions may vary quite a bit from place to place.<\/p>\n
When do we figure out how to decarbonize space heating and transportation? What sorts of challenges will we face in adding those loads to the electricity grid? How much additional generation, transmission, distribution capacity, and storage will we need? How will we manage such a grid? And what if, once we have transferred some of those loads to the grid, it actually starts to look cheaper to not <\/em>electrify everything? Our guest in this episode has studied such questions for years, and has some surprising insights into how deep decarbonization might actually evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we transfer loads from transportation and space heating over to renewably-powered electricity, will we discover a limit to the \u201celectrify everything\u201d mantra?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[373,237,371,112,374,372,376,115,375,377,359],"class_list":["post-1474","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-capacity-markets","tag-demand-flexibility","tag-demand-response","tag-internet-of-things","tag-machine-learning","tag-south-australia","tag-storage","tag-tempus-energy","tag-uk","tag-wholesale-markets","xen_guests-mackay-miller"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n