Good luck on this and as a born and raised New Yorker, I wilsh you luck. I'll use your columns in my three different sustainable energy classes at The George Washington University (GWU).
hi Dan, thank you for coming to the DSA game night to see Energetic in action! One note to make more clear: our 16 GW target already assumes maximum efficiency and demand response policies have been implemented. Otherwise, as shown by Urban Green Council's model, the city would need 24 GW minimum to power heat pumps during a winter peak, which is much harder to achieve:
We figured 16 GW of zero carbon power is hard enough to build, and so it's a good entry point to explain the whole story. But we'll billboard that info more in the future! Also, as we roll out updates, the Hydrogen storage will probably be made into an as yet unnamed future technology, since large scale hydrogen seems to be going by the wayside. Whether it was ever realistic is hard to tell, but during the Biden Administration it was the dominant plan and subject of multi-billion dollar regional 'hydrogen hub' investments, including a proposal led by Con Ed for New York State.
Good luck on this and as a born and raised New Yorker, I wilsh you luck. I'll use your columns in my three different sustainable energy classes at The George Washington University (GWU).
Scott Sklar
Adjunct Professor & Sustainable Energy Director
Environment & Energy Management Institute (EEMI)
The George Washington University (GWU)
https://eemi.seas.gwu.edu/ sklar@gwu.edu
Non GWU e-mails to: solarsklar@aol.com
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hi Dan, thank you for coming to the DSA game night to see Energetic in action! One note to make more clear: our 16 GW target already assumes maximum efficiency and demand response policies have been implemented. Otherwise, as shown by Urban Green Council's model, the city would need 24 GW minimum to power heat pumps during a winter peak, which is much harder to achieve:
https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/grid-ready-powering-nycs-all-electric-buildings/
We figured 16 GW of zero carbon power is hard enough to build, and so it's a good entry point to explain the whole story. But we'll billboard that info more in the future! Also, as we roll out updates, the Hydrogen storage will probably be made into an as yet unnamed future technology, since large scale hydrogen seems to be going by the wayside. Whether it was ever realistic is hard to tell, but during the Biden Administration it was the dominant plan and subject of multi-billion dollar regional 'hydrogen hub' investments, including a proposal led by Con Ed for New York State.
Related notes in this interview with Skylight:
https://www.skylight.nyc/articles/resources/its-a-very-game-like-problem-youre-trying-to-build-things-and-there-are-obstacles
Energetic will be at the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday, March 7, hosted by 350Brooklyn:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/350brooklyn-presents-central-library-info-20260307-0200pm