Reposted by Brent Heard
The electricity grid stressed by growing energy demands. Join @nationalacademies.org on January 13-14 to explore technical, policy, and regulatory strategies for strengthening the U.S. electricity system. I’m on the planning committee for this event and we hope you will tune in: bit.ly/4xXIwrB
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Planning and Building the Electricity System of the Future: A Workshop
The electricity system is a backbone of U.S. economic activity, enabling peoples’ health and livelihoods, and is a key pathway for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the grid is at an inflect...
![Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University, said the new controversy that the Trump administration had stirred around climate science was a fitting subject for a fast-track effort by the National Academies.
“The National Academies [were] established exactly to do things like this—to answer questions of scientific importance for the government,” he said. “This is what the DOE should have done all along, rather than hire five people who represent a tiny minority of the scientific community and have views that virtually nobody else agrees with.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyemf6niinxjzirk7pbzzt3j/bafkreifnvpttyaxod2ph6vreng4vhllbzg45xhfklbuvw7asa6k5eki4by)
