Power gridlock – The challenge of rebuilding the US power grid | AJOT.COM

An article from September, 2020 discusses the  mutual challenges of our current US power grid and what would be involved in rebuilding it.

An insert from the article:

The U.S. power grid is millions of miles long, contains countless pieces of equipment, serves nearly 230 million people and is magnificently deficient in upkeep. Analysts are engaged in multitrillion-dollar debate whether the grid needs rebuilding or replacement. And every day, new power sources are coming online that need to be incorporated into the grid – many of them renewables like wind and solar, never envisioned as becoming a “democratized” feature of the power grid. But now one thing is a certain, the power grid needs attention and it will be costly, the largest project and likely most expensive “project” in U.S. history.

Fixing America’s power grid is a monumentally difficult and expensive task. Three years back, Joshua Rhodes, a researcher at University of Texas, Austin’s Webber Energy Group, estimated a complete grid replacement would cost nearly $5 trillion. “I’m sure it would be more now,” Rhodes recently said.