{"id":14289,"date":"2016-11-07T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2016-11-07T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:08:07","slug":"fraying-wires-how-policymakers-can-fix-americas-electricity-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2016\/11\/07\/fraying-wires-how-policymakers-can-fix-americas-electricity-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraying Wires: How Policymakers Can Fix America\u2019s Electricity Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"electric-pylons\"On any given day, half a million Americans lose<\/a> power for two or more hours. Those blackouts cost<\/a> our economy billions of dollars. 70 percent of the U.S. grid that delivers<\/a> electricity to our homes and businesses is at least 25 years old, and comparatively we endure more outages than other developed nations. We suffer some 360 minutes of outages each year, compared with just 16 minutes for Korea, 15 for Germany<\/a>, and 11 for Japan.<\/p>\n

A new book \u2013 The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future<\/em> \u2013 offers these and other insights about the challenges of modernizing America\u2019s electric grid \u2013 the set of wires and transformers that transmit and deliver power. According to the author, McGill University professor and cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke, our current system is \u201cworn down, it\u2019s patched up, and every hoped-for improvement is expensive and bureaucratically bemired.\u201d<\/p>\n

But change could be on the horizon. With a new president and Congress taking office in January, legislation to address America\u2019s deteriorating infrastructure, like bridges and lead-laden water pipes, will likely be debated. High on their list of priorities should be new policies encouraging private-sector investment and innovation in the electricity sector.<\/p>\n

Here are four ideas from Bakke that the new Congress and administration should keep in mind as they consider legislation that will lay the groundwork for America\u2019s energy future.<\/p>\n

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Encourage competition via data<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smart meters<\/a>, internet-enabled devices that communicate detailed information to utilities about their customers\u2019 electricity use, are a first step toward reimagining our grid, Bakke notes. Yet she also points out that the devices initially offer more benefits to the utilities<\/em> than to their customers. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way. Customers deserve access to their own smart meter data so they can gain more control over their energy use and costs. But right now, most Americans (even those with smart meters installed) don\u2019t have access to their own energy data in a way that\u2019s useful.<\/p>\n

Lack of access prevents third parties and technologies, such as smart thermostats, from digesting and synthesizing data into actionable steps that increase efficiency and lower pollution. Moreover, the enormous quantities of data from these modern devices can allow state utility commissions and power companies to design rate structures and other policies that shift electricity use around the clock. This can help cut their expenses and eliminate the need for costly new and dirty \u201cpeaker\u201d plants that operate only a few hours each year when demand is high. Policymakers should allow greater access to customer data by municipalities, third-party service providers, and customers themselves.re”]<\/p>\n

Connect a microgrid system<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bakke pays particular attention to microgrids<\/a> thereby providing greater security and reliability. She notes the U.S. military is converting all of its domestic bases to microgrids that can be \u201cislanded\u201d and protected during storms or other disruptions. Google is doing the same for its headquarters and data centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur grid could just as well be an amalgamation of 10,000 microgrids as a single system,\u201d writes the author. \u201cSo long as microgrids can function interoperably with each other, and do so most of the time, they are indistinguishable from the end user\u2019s point of view from the grid we already have. The difference is resiliency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fund the race to storage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Improving the system involves far more than simply adding lots of solar panels and wind turbines. In fact, because sun and wind aren\u2019t constant and we\u2019re still studying how best to store electricity, these new ways of cleanly making electricity add complexity to the grid\u2019s efficient and reliable operation. Bakke focuses on storage, which she calls the \u201choly grail\u201d because \u201cit allows us to build an electric world that\u2026has the flexibility to move and change with whatever the 21st<\/sup> century will throw at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creative legislation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bakke correctly notes that the grid is not just a technological system. She writes that it\u2019s \u201calso a legal one, a business one, a political one, a cultural one, and a weather-driven one.\u201d Reforming \u2013 or, as she puts it, \u201creimagining\u201d \u2013 the grid requires addressing a complex collection of integrated challenges. It requires confronting the \u201cbehemoths of old power\u201d who will oppose any transformations that threaten their profits.<\/p>\n

Bakke correctly notes that the grid is not just a technological system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She does not claim to know what the grid will look like in 30 years. Yet she argues \u201cwe now live in the era of infrastructural dreaming\u201d of a \u201cgrid so jam-packed with computerization that it sparkles.\u201d<\/p>\n

She forsees a common platform that \u201cwould need to be open to all the strange sorts of things people are dreaming up and building today (from vehicle to grid-enabled self-driving car pods to nanogrids) and <\/em>to the boring old stuff we\u2019re stuck with for the moment (like natural gas combustion plants and old coal or nuclear).\u201d<\/p>\n

Bakke\u2019s perspective is critical as both Republicans and Democrats increasingly discuss ways to improve and upgrade our nation\u2019s infrastructure. While most of those debates focus on roads and water treatment facilities, perhaps the most important infrastructure is the grid.<\/p>\n

Electricity is critical to our modern economy. The U.S. can no longer afford frequent blackouts. It needs to integrate sustainable and non-polluting resources. It must empower both consumers and entrepreneurs. It requires, according to Bakke, \u201ca self-healing, processor-dense, intelligent grid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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