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

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

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Energy technology 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 may require huge investments to modernize. Dr. Tim Lieuwen, Regents’ Professor and govt 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 help renewable energy technology and distribution. The adjustments that may comply with the reorganization of the grid will even remodel our relationship to vitality as essentially because the introduction of electrical energy and energy distribution traces within the late 1800s. It might be a difficult, fascinating, and typically terrifying time for vitality corporations, traders, and customers.

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

Dr. Lieuwen is the writer of 4 books on the physics of combustion and fuel 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 speedy progress in renewable energy and electrification of the economic system. We additionally discover how lengthy fossil fuels will keep within the vitality 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.