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Grid, Climate Change & Fossil Fuels
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May 11 2013 05:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
CAP Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss testified about electric grid reliability,
. . . before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power
. . . of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
He made a strong case for confronting the 2 elephants in the room:
. . . the impact climate change has on the reliability and security of the electric grid.
. . . the effect that burning fossil fuels for electricity has on our climate.
Extreme weather events: storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires,
. . . threaten electricity Power delivery systems.
We urge the subcommittee to support policies to achieve a more secure,
. . . reliable electricity system by accomplishing the following 3 goals:
1. The subcommittee should support policies that slow climate change
. . . by reducing carbon pollution from power plants,
. . . the largest uncontrolled source of emissions.
2. Provide financial incentives for innovative energy efficiency and
. . . no- or low-carbon electricity technologies, which would reduce reliance
. . . on dirty fossil fuels responsible for climate change.
3. The subcommittee should act to enhance the resilience of
. . . the electricity infrastructure to extreme storms, drought, sea level rise, and
. . . other impacts of climate change.
Source: Fixing-the-Grid
. . . before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power
. . . of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
He made a strong case for confronting the 2 elephants in the room:
. . . the impact climate change has on the reliability and security of the electric grid.
. . . the effect that burning fossil fuels for electricity has on our climate.
Extreme weather events: storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires,
. . . threaten electricity Power delivery systems.
We urge the subcommittee to support policies to achieve a more secure,
. . . reliable electricity system by accomplishing the following 3 goals:
1. The subcommittee should support policies that slow climate change
. . . by reducing carbon pollution from power plants,
. . . the largest uncontrolled source of emissions.
2. Provide financial incentives for innovative energy efficiency and
. . . no- or low-carbon electricity technologies, which would reduce reliance
. . . on dirty fossil fuels responsible for climate change.
3. The subcommittee should act to enhance the resilience of
. . . the electricity infrastructure to extreme storms, drought, sea level rise, and
. . . other impacts of climate change.
Source: Fixing-the-Grid
