Too much nationwide electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels, causing air pollution responsible for 250,000 deaths annually here in the U.S. This scourge is concentrated primarily in disadvantaged areas.
The good news is that tax credits and incentives built into the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act passed last summer will help us make the transition to clean electricity, saving lives and mitigating climate change.
But there is a bottleneck that could mean that only 20% of the Inflation Reduction Act’s benefits are realized: the lack of sufficient transmission capacity to get clean power from where it is generated, often over state lines, to where it is used. Experts tell us this capacity must be tripled by 2050. But, over the last decade, our electricity transmission infrastructure has grown by only 1% per year, too slow a pace to fend off climate change and…
Letter to the editor: A clean energy bottleneck needs attention from Congress
