Watch the webcast here live on April 26, 10:15 a.m. EDT.
To decarbonize the energy system, while assuring that electric power remains resilient, we must break the logjam that makes it difficult, often impossible, to build new lines to move clean power from locations where it is produced (remote solar, hydro and terrestrial and offshore wind) to the locations where it is needed. Distributed generation and end-use efficiency can help, but the US Department of Energy has argued that if the economy is going to stay strong, and the nation is going to make serious progress in reducing CO2 emissions, by 2050 the US will need to more than double high-voltage transmission capacity. That will not be possible if all we do is try to build new transmission lines under business as usual. As the experts in this session will explain, success will require the use of new technology, non-traditional rights-of-way, improved public understanding, and more than incremental changes in regulation, law, and public policy.
Organizer:
M. Granger Morgan
Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers:
Larry Bekkedahl
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Advanced Energy Delivery
Portland General Electric
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science
Director, Schaeffer Institute's Behavioral Science and Policy Initiative
University of Southern California
Duncan Callaway
Professor and Chair, Energy and Resources Group
University of California, Berkeley
Liza B. Reed
Director of Climate, Niskanen Center
Susan F. Tierney
Senior Advisor
Analysis Group, Inc.
David G. Victor
Professor of Innovation and Public Policy
Director, Deep Decarbonization Initiative, School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego