Even if innovative new sources of clean energy are eventually commercialised, that still leaves the problem of an ossified, overloaded and dumb power grid in the meantime. As Scott Strazik, chief executive of GE Vernova, a big energy-technology firm recently spun out of GE, puts it, “We need to upgrade the brains of the grid.”
A range of market-ready “grid-enhancing technologies” (GETs) that expand throughput without requiring vast grid expansions is ready for prime time. And utilities, at long last, are overcoming cultural and regulatory hostility to innovation and are giving them a chance.
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