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Jigar Shah on the DOE's Role In Accelerating The Energy Transition

Odd Lots

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Is the Grid Going to Stay Up?

The average coal plant in this country is almost 50 years old. It's 90 % cheaper to ramp up and down people's e v chargers at home than it is to build a new power plant. You can imagine that these homes in this circuit, when it was built in 19 forty five, or whatever it was, wasn't built for a bunch of electric vehicles to plug in. And so now we're sitting here and saying, should we re invest in more coal plants and more natural gas plants?

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