The Cheapest Grid Is the One We Already Paid For
Your utility bill keeps going up. But the problem isn't that we need to build more — it's that we're barely using what we already have.
Arnab Pal, founder of clean energy advocacy group Deploy Action and co-author of a new grid affordability playbook, joins Jigar and Jamie to make the case for grid utilization: the unglamorous, cost-cutting strategy that governors, regulators, and utilities are finally starting to pay attention to.
They get into why blue states like California and New York have struggled to actually build clean energy despite ambitious goals, what virtual power plants can do…
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