How do we get electricity grids for the future? 4/6
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 the previous reports we have seen that the need for new electricity networks is great and so are the challenges of getting them in place. In this fourth of six reports, we get Erik Lundin's perspective on the electricity grid of the future, focusing on the significant investments required and how this will affect the grid.– poisons for ordinary people. Lundin is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Economic Research and the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University.
HOW DO WE GET ELECTRICITY GRIDS FOR THE FUTURE PART 4/6
What are you paying for the electricity grid of the future? - Erik Lundin (pdf)
