Storrow: The core grid challenge is phasing out fossils while incentivizing retention
Ben Storrow · A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England · Jul 26, 2023 · at 22:00
E&E News reporter Ben Storrow discusses the next phase of grid decarbonization beyond simply adding clean megawatt-hours.
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“We're starting to push past that first phase of the energy transition where we're just bringing, and it Megawatt hours of clean power online and we're not really to the upward bounds of, like, You know, we're not to 50 or 60% renewables yet, but, like, we can sort of see that coming, and it brings all of these sort of interesting, probably the most complicated questions, which are, like, how do you phase out these fossil resources that we're still relying on, and we know are gonna go away, but we need them for a little while longer, and, like, we need to, like, probably give them some incentive to stick around, but we don't want them to stick around Too long, and like, that's, I think, really the challenging question that is ahead of us.”
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