3/26/2023 0 Comments Spellcaster university futureThis summer at the commission I am working with Ken Rider, the advisor for the lead commissioner on renewables, attempting to better quantify these and other benefits to the environment and the grid when considering electric vehicle adoption at scale. With electric vehicles beginning to gain market adoption, our reliance on vehicles could solve both problems at once: EVs reduce up to 78% of fuel emissions over a typical car and their battery capacity could help utilize currently curtailed renewables.Ĭreated in 1974, the California Energy Commission has a long history as the agency focused on creating an energy system to meet the present and future energy needs at the lowest cost and lowest impact to the environment. Even at our present level of 25%, so far this year California has seen record levels of curtailment for renewable energy, topping 282 GWh, twice as much in this same time in 2016. Last year twenty-five million fossil-fueled vehicles on the road in California drove over 335 billion miles (far enough to make the voyage to Mars and back 1200 times over !) literally functioning as the engine to our state economy, while simultaneously producing the largest portion of greenhouse gas emissions today.Ĭalifornia has a reputation for making ambitious strides towards a clean energy future, with current targets to meet 50% of our electricity needs from renewables by 2030. For millions of Californians the same is true, with many people relying on cars and other transportation for quality of life. I grew up in the middle of the country – across Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma – where obtaining a driver’s license is a rite of passage and the car a symbol of independence and status.
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