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A Sr Men's club I belong to had a recent speaker for our monthly breakfast meeting. He is a Sr exec from the major regional energy provider and spoke at length on their program for the future which includes existing nuclear, new small nuclear plants converting old fossil steam plants on existing infrastructure, retain some existing carbon fueled, wind, solar, battery and hydro, sounds like a well-balanced program.
One major takeaway I got was when he said that if all of you decide to get EV's and all decide to charge them at the same time your neighborhood lights will go out. Huh? He went on to explain that on top of all the current increasing demand for power, for the foreseeable future there is no generation capacity for this scenario to work and even if there was there is not enough distribution capacity.
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