On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the US electric grid. Recently, a power failure cut electricity to approximately 670 million people across Northern India. Could the United States be susceptible to such a widespread outage? How is our system structured? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How are we shifting to a more sustainable grid for our future power needs? Join us at 10am PST or post a comment here. Is our current system preventing a real shift to renewables? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Guests:
Clark W. Gellings, professional engineer and a fellow with the Electric Power Research Institute
Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission with the Natural Resources Defense Committee (NRDC)
Resources:
Electric Power Research Institute
NRDC Switchboard:The Future of the Grid: Why Modernizing our Nation's Aging Grid is Critical
Reuters: California braces for power-grid test as heat-wave approaches
NPR: Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid
NPR: Power Hungry: Reinventing the US Electric Grid
Energy.gov: Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the US and Canada -- Causes and Recommendations
Discovery: ANATOMY OF A POWER OUTAGE
CNBC: US Blackout coming soon?
NPR: India's Power Woes A Classic Story Of Supply, Demand
NPR: A Country Divided: Japan's Electric Bottleneck
Wikipedia: Electricity Transmission
NPR: Germans Confront The Costs Of A Nuclear-Free Future
Wall Street Journal: The Coal Age Nears Its End