Solar, A Strategy for Decarbonizing the Grid and Increasing Resilience

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For Your Consideration

Fortnightly Magazine - April 2019
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A tree that is unbending is easily broken

- Lao Tzu

 

Science proves the link between expanding carbon emissions and climate change, the impacts of which are accelerating and lasting. Since April 2017, the Atlantic basin has generated thirty-two named storms - sixty percent above average - including some of the most powerful and destructive storms ever recorded.

In 2018 alone, two major hurricanes, Florence and Michael, caused billions of dollars of damage and stranded millions of customers without power along the eastern seaboard. In the Western United States, wildfires intensified by climate change consumed homes and lives, leading to utility bankruptcies as well as service disruptions. The message is clear that we have to reduce our carbon footprint dramatically, but even if we do, we are in for a rough ride for some time to come.

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