Smart Grid Seminar: Aurora Winslade, Edison International - Livestream

As people around the world face undeniable climate impacts and sobering risks to their future health and livelihoods, California’s policy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 can be a model for other states and nations. However, success requires unprecedented innovation and coordination across planning, policy and technology. Significant electrification - powered by clean generation and enabled by an unparalleled expansion of the electric grid - is necessary to decarbonize the economy feasibly and affordably. Achieving this requires urgent and fundamental changes in how the state’s entire energy infrastructure is planned and built.

The key findings that describe Countdown to 2045’s solution for California include: 90% of light- and medium- duty and over 50% of heavy-duty vehicles are electric, 95% of residential and commercial space and water heating is electric, up to 15% of utility-scale generation is from new and emerging technologies, such as offshore wind and next generation geothermal DERs, and new transmission and distribution grid projects added at up to 4x and 10x their historical rates, respectively.

Nonstudents are welcome to join via Zoom webinar.

Speakers: Aurora Winslade, Edison International; Erica Bowman, Southern California Edison

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