{"id":3666,"date":"2022-11-09T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/?post_type=xen_episodes&p=3666"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:39:48","slug":"episode-185-designing-the-mid-transition","status":"publish","type":"xen_episodes","link":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/episodes\/episode-185-designing-the-mid-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"[Episode #185] \u2013 Designing the Mid-transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phasing out the old while simultaneously building up the new is always a challenge, and perhaps never more so than with the energy transition. Can we coordinate replacing fossil-fueled assets with clean, zero-carbon assets so that both systems remain functional and affordable during the transition? And how can we ensure that disadvantaged communities don\u2019t get left behind in the process?<\/p>\n

In this episode, we continue to explore the theme of the \u201cmessy middle\u201d of the transition, building on our previous discussions in Episode #177<\/a> and #181<\/a>. Not only should we expect a large degree of direct government intervention in the process of the transition, because it\u2019s just too difficult and complex to leave everything up to the action of markets, it can be a welcome intervention. Someone needs to plan how to orchestrate the retirement of dirty assets with the construction of clean replacements while keeping everything running. For example: Can we leave it up to the private sector to ensure that enough gasoline filling stations stick around to meet the needs of people still driving internal combustion engine vehicles while we\u2019re in the process of building up enough EV charging infrastructure to meet the needs of drivers who are going electric? Probably not. Some elements of the transition will be far more successful if they are planned and guided.<\/p>\n

In this conversation, Emily Grubert points out some of the challenges of the \u201cmid-transition,\u201d as she and her co-author Sara Hastings-Simon call it, and how policymakers ought to be thinking about how to orchestrate it so that no one gets left behind.<\/p>\n

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