How do we get electricity grids for the future? 2/6
The electrification of everything from Swedish industry to our transport sector is proceeding at a rapid pace and is a prerequisite for combating climate change. While the debate is raging about how to produce more and more electricity, the electricity grids that will deliver it are silent.
This is a major problem. The challenge of getting sufficient electricity grids in place in time is monumental and the costs that ultimately end up on electricity grid customers will be breathtaking. If we do not take the expansion of electricity grids seriously, there is a great risk that there will be no electricity in the outlet and that Sweden will miss the set climate goals, no matter how much wind or nuclear power we build.
The Environment and Public Health Institute (EPHI) has brought together some of the brightest minds to outline the challenges of the future electricity grid in a series of short reports.
In this, the second of six reports, we get Niclas Damgaard's, Chief Strategist at Svenska kraftnät, perspective on the electricity grid of the future, focusing on how big the problem is and what the challenge looks like. How much electricity and electricity networks do we really need?
HOW DO WE GET ELECTRICITY GRIDS FOR THE FUTURE PART 2/6
New electrification of Sweden - Niclas Damsgaard (pdf)
