With this summer’s lengthy heat waves and record demand for electricity, the need to prevent widespread blackouts is again throwing conservation — and the aging electrical grid — onto center stage. GE’s Bob Gilligan just wrote a piece for Bloomberg Businessweek in which he explains that firing up expensive “peaker plants” to add extra power to the grid to meet daily demand spikes is the same as if giant amusement parks were designed with only handling massive spring break crowds in mind.
via This sizzling summer, the grid wants heat relief, too.
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