After Texas Crisis, Biden’s Climate Plan Hangs on Fragile Power Grid
Bloomberg 2/22/2021 Brian Eckhouse
(Bloomberg) The millions of people who struggled to keep warm in Texas, with blackouts crippling life inside a dominant energy hub, have laid bare the desperate state of U.S. electricity grids. To fix nationwide vulnerabilities, President Joe Biden will have to completely reimagine the American way of producing and transmitting electricity.
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Biden wants to overhaul the nation’s grids so they derive all electricity from carbon-free sources by 2035 a major step toward zeroing out net emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. Realizing that goal will require building billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines, a challenge that might prove just as difficult as getting his climate agenda through Congress.
To meet its global climate commitments, Japan will need to restart almost every reactor it shuttered after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and then build more.
After Texas Crisis, Biden’s Climate Plan Hangs on Fragile Power Grid
Bloomberg 2/22/2021 Brian Eckhouse
(Bloomberg) The millions of people who struggled to keep warm in Texas, with blackouts crippling life inside a dominant energy hub, have laid bare the desperate state of U.S. electricity grids. To fix nationwide vulnerabilities, President Joe Biden will have to completely reimagine the American way of producing and transmitting electricity.
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Biden wants to overhaul the nation’s grids so they derive all electricity from carbon-free sources by 2035 a major step toward zeroing out net emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. Realizing that goal will require building billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines, a challenge that might prove just as difficult as getting his climate agenda through Congress.
The benchmarks countries must hit to reach net-zero emissions
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More than 100 countries have pledged to get to net-zero emissions in the next 30 years
February 13, 2021
Five years after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gaveled the landmark Paris climate accord into force, the year 2050 looms large. That’s the deadline many countries have set to zero out the greenhouse gases they’re adding to the atmosphere.
More than 100 countries have pledged to get to net-zero emissions in the next 30 years, according to the UK-based nonprofit Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit.