Inside Biden's race to connect renewables to the grid
When John Podesta arrived at the White House last year to speed up President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda, the nation’s aging electric grid topped his priority list.
Pulling down barriers that would stand in the way of Biden’s far-reaching goals for combatting climate threats was now the task of the former White House chief of staff. Right away, Podesta sat down with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The two ran through a list of proposed high-voltage electric transmission projects critical to delivering wind and solar power to American cities and suburbs — as air conditioners run at full tilt and the age of digital technology consumes more energy.
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