{"id":290628,"date":"2023-12-09T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290628"},"modified":"2023-12-09T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:25:23","slug":"your-clean-green-future-needs-another-80-million-km-of-high-voltage-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290628","title":{"rendered":"Your clean green future *needs* another 80 million km of high voltage lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did they forget to mention a clean green planet is full of steel transmission lines?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Recently the International Energy Agency (IEA) told the world off for not preparing the Earth for the transition they want to force upon us. Apparently, we should have paid attention and built the right grid and now, due to our laziness, we will have to rush in another 80 million kilometers of interconnectors by 2040. Just like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the high voltage lines we built in the last century, we have to build again in the next 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, it\u2019s not their fault that renewables need far more land, more space, more back up and more infrastructure \u2014 it\u2019s our  fault we didn\u2019t build a world ready for their holy energy. Those sacred wind and solar gifts cannot be bestowed upon us! We are unworthy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IEA Lack of ambition and attention risks making electricity grids the weak link in clean energy transitions<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First-of-its-kind global study finds the world must add or replace 80 million km of grids by 2040, equal to all grids globally today, to meet national climate targets and support energy security.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Notice how these changes \u201care essential\u201d girls and boys, and you should have paid for them already. It\u2019s only half a trillion dollars a year for the next 7 years\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving all national climate and energy goals will require adding or replacing 80 million kilometres of power lines by 2040 \u2013 an amount equal to the entire existing global grid \u2013 according to a detailed country-by-country analysis carried out for the report. Major changes to how grids operate and are regulated are also essential, while annual investment in grids, which has remained broadly stagnant, needs to double to more than USD 600 billion a year by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issues are already emerging. The report identifies a large and growing queue of renewables projects waiting for the green light to be connected to the grid, pinpointing 1 500 gigawatts worth of these projects that are in advanced stages of development. This is five times the amount of solar PV and wind capacity that was added worldwide last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just bill it to the wind and solar investors, says Jo Nova, and make them pay to put the lines underground so they don\u2019t pollute the forests and farms and start fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Henry Geraedts said in the Financial Post<\/em> \u2014 80 million kilometers by 2040 <\/a>is is enough to wrap around the globe 2,000 times. It\u2019s all so utterly improbable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as Australian farmers say when\u00a0AusNet wants to build interconnectors across their farms<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Western Victorian Farmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tell the children they\u2019ve been lied to. The Green future is an industrial wasteland of concrete and steel built to line the pockets of billionaires<\/a> and bankers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Interconnectors by\u00a0Frans Berkelaar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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