This is real progress happening quietly...
From Clean Technica:
"Two New DOE Offices Will Support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Investments to Modernize the Electric Grid, Help States, Communities, Tribes and Territories Build Out Clean Energy Infrastructure and Revitalize Economies"
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At first glance, it would appear to be a padding of the swamp.
Two new DOE sub-offices. The Grid Deployment office and the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. The latter to deal with the States, Tribes and Territories. To me, it would seem that the latter is an office created to get someone a cushy federal job.
The first office - Grid Deployment. It would seem that the government has failed us. ERDA was created under Ford, DOE under Carter and we've had to go through 6 more presidents, 2 ERDA Leaders, 16 secretaries of DOE and 47 years to create/focus on the electrical grid. Either a whole lot of people have been asleep at the wheel or this "new" office is a means to get some more space for little piglets to get their share at the taxpayer trough.
I can see asleep at the wheel. Livermore Lab's electrical grid suffered a near total meltdown in the 80's when it hadn't been properly upgraded and maintained since the days of the naval base. The lab learned a painful and powerful lesson when that failure occurred. Maybe that lesson will need to be visited upon California to get a wake up call. Perhaps then the AC goes out at the French Laundry and a bottle of expensive wine looses its chill.
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