Best of Earth911 Podcast: The Strategic Energy Institute’s Tim Lieuwen on Accelerating US Electrification

Best of Earth911 Podcast: The Strategic Energy Institute’s Tim Lieuwen on Accelerating US Electrification

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Energy era and distribution are experiencing the form of disruption that remodeled many different industries over the previous 20 years. But the electric grid is a stubbornly inflexible bodily infrastructure that can require huge investments to modernize. Dr. Tim Lieuwen, Regents’ Professor and government director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, joins the dialog to debate accelerating the tempo of electrification of transportation and modernization of the electrical grid to assist renewable energy era and distribution. The modifications that can comply with the reorganization of the grid may even rework our relationship to power as essentially because the introduction of electrical energy and energy distribution strains within the late 1800s. It can be a difficult, fascinating, and generally terrifying time for power firms, traders, and customers.

Dr. Tim Lieuwen, executive director, Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech
Dr. Tim Lieuwen, government director, Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Dr. Lieuwen is the creator of 4 books on the physics of combustion and gasoline turbine engines, in addition to a member of governing or advisory boards for Oak Ridge National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, and the National Renewable Energy Lab, amongst others. Discover how the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law contribute to fast progress in renewable energy and electrification of the financial system. We additionally discover how lengthy fossil fuels will keep within the power combine and the teachings of Texas’ 2021 winter storm energy outages. You can study extra about Dr. Lieuwen at ae.gatech.edu/directory/person/timothy-charles-lieuwen.

Originally revealed on Apr 21, 2023