VoraciousTrees t1_ixr2g5l wrote on November 25, 2022 at 5:32 PM

Reply to comment by smallproton in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61

better start upgrading the transformers and lines now.

pimpbot666 t1_ixr6m4c wrote on November 25, 2022 at 6:03 PM

Yeah, maybe they should start work on upgrading.

Dafuq do you think they’ve been doing constantly since I dunno….. the 50s? The ‘grid’ is constantly being upgraded. They just upgraded the transformer at the end of my dead end street in May.

Canadian_Infidel t1_ixs38ta wrote on November 25, 2022 at 10:03 PM

Those are not the transformers in question. Those are plentiful. The larger ones are all custom and are so critical and have such incredible lead times (years) the US military started keeping copies of them all since they would be such an easy military target.

jmcdon00 t1_ixrakop wrote on November 25, 2022 at 6:32 PM

The infrastructure bill that democrats recently passed included $65 billion for upgrading our electrical grid.

https://www.ase.org/blog/heres-how-infrastructure-bill-improves-grid

[deleted] t1_ixs2puu wrote on November 25, 2022 at 9:59 PM

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rgpc64 t1_ixs3ey4 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 10:04 PM

"The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that first-round applications are open for competitive grants under the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Programs, which total $10.5 billion in available funding, as well as the $2.5 billion Transmission Facilitation Program. Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these programs together represent the largest single direct federal investment in critical transmission and distribution infrastructure."