The company makes 1st US power transmission line to prevent blackouts
Executive of The pure fuel sector Carey Kotar is one Millions of people are affected by URI winter stormIt hit Texas in 2021 with a historic cold wave.
A. Temperature The inside of his house was on top of zero and the family frozen the Golden Fish Aquarium. Kotur was out of the storm, but more than 200 Texans died during a rare cold spread, leaving millions of people Power Days.
Now the company of Kotler is going to build a first main broadcast line connecting the Sharali Energy and Texas with the US East – to help save electricity to the state during the storm.
“When the hanging storm has happened, you can bring power from the southeast, and there is a lot of energy, it can export to Texas,” Kotla said CNN.
This broadcast line is an example of US officers and experts and professionals who are urgently needed for the country: a high, high voltage electric lines that can be transported from one place to another.
Increasing frequency. This ability to transfer electricity between the areas is important as the US power grid is reached by severe weather events. The network has been affected several times this year through strong storms. Helen and Milton storms left nearly 11 million consumers in the southeast of the country without power and thousands were still in the dark.
“You need to be higher than your power grid weather,” said Allison Clements, former Federal Energy Regulation Commission. “When the extravagant cold fronts cross the country or stopped in an area in an area, and when there is more demand than expected, it is necessary to bring electricity from places where the environment does not face.”
Turn the straws into wide pipes
As the country is experiencing growing weather conditions, officials and experts will ask for concessions and legislators to significantly expand the power grid to maintain power supply.
But the weather is not the only cause of this expansion. Electricity demand is increasing rapidly, mainly through data centers and artificial intelligence, high energy consumption. In addition, there is a huge amount of pure energy such as solar and air – waiting to be connected to the grid, which exceeds all the energy in the operation today.
In short, according to the Clements, the US Power Grid is not obsolete and filled with patches.
“We have more than 60, 70 interstate transmission system,” she said. “We have used the VHS network in the economy we work in Hulu.”
In practice, the American power grid consists of three main networks: East and West Interconnections, as well as the Independent Network of Texas. Among them, there is a mosaic of a dozen small regional systems. Experts believe that physical lines that connect these networks are fragile and old CNN.
“On these three large networks, we have a grass that basically connects the Olympic pools,” explained the CEO Rob Gramlich of grid strategies. “If we can turn this straw into wide pipes … everyone may have electricity.”
The future network should be two to three times larger than the current – and the better connected areas, the fuel department officials have assessed. It must be more resistant to the extreme weather.
“Distribution issues, physical damage to small wires, cables touching branches, vehicle conflicts, strong winds and animals are very powerful,” said Aerial Horovitz, Deputy Department Department Department Department Department.
In the case of forest fires, storms, tornadoes and severe storms, the energy industry is showing “great interest” in strengthening its electrical infrastructure. The Biden government on Friday announced an investment of $ 4.2 billion (about R 24 billion) in Power Grid from elasticity projects. Fuel Secretary Jennifer Granhome insisted that there was a flood of proposals, many of which were not thought about.
Strengthening the network can be replaced by stainless steel or concrete structures, cable burial or trees to prevent their height. It can be more responsive and appointed by the electric lines so that dealers can divert supply during storms.
Even with a large network, Clements warn that it is not possible to address all the challenges caused by climate change. In the case of Helen Hurricane, he said, “Most transformers are submerged and the whole substations are under water,” he said.
Some of the Federal Financing are intended to increase these substations over the flood and on the coast.
But she adds to states like California and Texas – networks in the summer facing serious heat waves – “there is no example when investment does not make the network more elastic.”
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