Renewable energy: costs and benefits

Our Policy Briefing presenter, Nancy Hirsh, knows energy. She heads the NW Energy Coalition. To level the playing field, Nancy will brief us on climate change and Washington’s staged phase-out of fossil fuels.

From there, it is open season. She will talk to us about obstacles to our transition, e.g., rapid increase in electricity demand from EV’s, data centers et al., bottlenecks in moving energy from generation to consumption (transmission constraints), maybe even some of the political problems we have been talking about.

Solutions, or at least mitigations, are on the table too. Ideas like GET (grid-enhancing technologies), distributed generation, and microgrids. Nancy has ideas, and is eager to share. Join the conversation.

Don Schwerin, chair, Ag & Rural Caucus, Washington State Democrats