{"id":5882,"date":"2021-08-21T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2021-08-21T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T22:05:57","slug":"the-us-power-grid-isnt-ready-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"The US power grid isn\u2019t ready for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;It\u2019s abundantly clear that the power grid in the United States is not ready for the effects of climate change, including the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22287295\/texas-uri-climate-change-cold-polar-vortex-arctic\" target=\"_blank\">extreme weather events<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-indicators\/weather-climate\" target=\"_blank\">come with it<\/a>. After all, climate change isn\u2019t just increasing the demand for energy to keep people cool or warm amid heat waves and winter storms. It\u2019s also damaging the grid itself. The country is now in a race against time to shift its energy supply toward renewable sources, like wind and solar, while also needing more and more electricity to do everything from powering more air conditioning to boosting the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/29\/climate\/gm-electric-cars-power-grid.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of EVs on the road<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/7\/3\/22560691\/power-grid-climate-change-heat-wave\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/7\/3\/22560691\/power-grid-climate-change-heat-wave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s abundantly clear that the power grid in the United States is not ready for the effects of climate change, including the extreme weather events that come with it. After all, climate change isn\u2019t just increasing the demand for energy to keep people cool or warm amid heat waves and winter storms. It\u2019s also damaging the grid itself. The country is now in a race against time to shift its energy supply toward renewable sources, like wind and solar, while also needing more and more electricity to do everything from powering more air conditioning to boosting the number of EVs on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,913,694,1352],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-electricity","tag-power","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}