The Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC or Committee) has assessed the current electric power delivery system infrastructure and concludes that it will be unable to ensure a reliable, cost-effective, secure, and environmentally sustainable supply of electricity for the next two decades. The early warning signs of a declining electric power delivery infrastructure are visible today. Fuel transportation, particularly by rail, is congested, and any outage of a rail line can create stress on electric power supply. Coal piles at power plants have been low in the recent past. Much of the electricity supply and delivery infrastructure is nearing the end of its useful life. Without attention, natural gas demand could grow faster than the supply and capacity of the associated infrastructure to produce and deliver it. Spent nuclear fuel storage at some reactors is reaching capacity without any policy direction on long-term storage or reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The integration of renewable energy resources rises and falls with the ebb and flow of congressional legislation to fund the production tax credits (PTCs). The transmission infrastructure is aging and becoming more congested.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Keeping the Lights on in a New World


    Contributors:
    L. Stuntz (author)

    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    102 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







    Keeping the world moving

    Tema Archive | 2004


    crosswalk lights

    KIM JUNG HOON | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access