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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #217 Managing the Energy Transition
Description: More and more of the economy is being powered by the grid and that trend will continue over the next few decades. At the same time countries are looking to reduce their reliance on coal and gas and use more renewables like solar and wind. Managing the transition to a green grid will require extensive planning and investment to ensure grids can remain reliable.
A renewables powered grid will still need baseload power sources that can provide large amounts of power reliably. But many renewable sources are intermittent, when the sun doesn’t shine you can’t get...