White House, States Work to Supercharge Existing Grid With Tech

The White House’s latest bid to squeeze more performance out of the existing power grid comes in recognition of the need to move faster, a senior Biden administration official said on Tuesday.

“As we think about the timescales, we actually need stuff that can cook right now, right away—very, very quickly,” Ali Zaidi, President Joe Biden’s national climate adviser, said at a White House panel discussion on Tuesday. “And the way to do that is by deploying grid-enhancing technologies; by reconductoring the lines that we have already strung up or buried across the country.”

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