Del Chiaro: California's electricity load will at least double from electrification
Bernadette Del Chiaro · Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions? · Oct 6, 2023 · at 11:02
Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of CALSSA, discusses how California's EV and heat pump adoption goals will drastically expand power demand.
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“We anticipate our electricity load is going to at least double just from our electrification initiatives in the next couple of years, and that's not counting any kind of impact climate change has on electricity consumption.”
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