Electric truck stops will need as much power as a small town
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/electric-truck-stops-will-need-as-much-power-as-a-small-town/
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If power upgrades don’t start soon, the transition to electric vehicles
— let alone electric trucks — will quickly be constrained by a grid
unprepared for the demand, warned Bart Franey, vice president of clean
energy development at National Grid.
“We need to start making these investments now,” Franey said in an
interview. “We can’t just wait for it to happen, because the market is
going to outpace the infrastructure.”
...
The total amount of new electricity that EVs will consume isn’t the
problem. Even if the world stopped making new gasoline-powered cars and
trucks altogether by the early 2030s — an optimistic scenario — it would
add no more than 15% to the world’s electricity consumption by 2040,
according to an analysis by BloombergNEF. In the age of cheap wind and
solar power, that’s not a lot.
...
“Utilities are waiting for a customer application to come in requesting
new service before they start their work, and that process is just too
long,” Aneja said. “You really have to anticipate that demand and then
get started ahead of time. That requires a paradigm shift from a policy
and a regulatory perspective.”
...
With the amount of change the grid will be experiencing in the next few
decades, the old rules for when to build interconnection upgrades — and
who pays for them — no longer make sense, said Brian Wilkie, director of
transport electrification at National Grid. Building connected
electricity highways will be a competitive advantage for states that
move the fastest, and every utility should be conducting similar studies
to evaluate future demand, he said.
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