The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is set to invest $2.2 billion in the nation’s grid for eight projects across 18 states, with the aim of protecting the infrastructure against extreme weather threats, lower costs for communities and catalyze additional grid capacity to meet load growth.
Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program, the selected projects are slated to deploy upgrades to the existing grid that would add 13 GW of grid capacity.
“The first half of 2024 has already broken records for the hottest days in Earth’s history, and as extreme weather continues to hit every part of the country, we must act with urgency to strengthen our aging grid to protect American communities,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is investing in the most crucial component of the nation’s infrastructure, expanding and hardening the grid to allow more resilient, clean power to reach more households and support the ongoing manufacturing boom, all while creating thousands of local jobs.”
In addition to the Grid Innovation Program, the partnership program provides funding to the private sector to strengthen and modernize the domestic power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other disruptive events that are exacerbated by the effects of climate change.
There is a particular focus on grid hardening efforts and Smart Grid Grants fund technology investments that will increase how much power the grid can handle, prevent faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances, integrate more renewable energy and facilitate the integration of electrified vehicles, buildings and other devices.
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I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat.
There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.
As we all know, the GOP will stop at nothing to win the midterms, thus making it impossible to remove the sociopathic criminal from the White House.
But did any of us see this coming?
Macabre.
I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives.
As it turns out, the CEO makes more than $20 million per year, largely based on bonuses associated with cutting costs. “Now we have tray tables that don’t work and seatbacks that don’t recline, and nobody even thinks about fixing them.”
She went on, “This shift has been particularly obvious in the case of Delta, which, when I started with them, was known for its southern charm and the feeling of welcoming its passengers. Now, that gone. It’s like it never existed.”
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