随着电力行业面临气候变化、技术破坏、新市场需求和政策变化的挑战，一位著名的能源专家为这一重要行业的未来提供了路线图。
随着气候变化造成的破坏性和代价高昂的影响的增加，可持续能源的快速发展变得非常紧迫。尽管电力行业面临着新技术、新竞争对手和政策变化带来的前所未有的挑战和破坏，但电力行业已经做出了必要但痛苦的转向可再生能源的回应。其结果是，一个必须提供丰富、安全、灵活且价格合理的电力的电网，与一个面临巨大电力需求和快速、系统性变革的行业之间发生了冲突。
时尚的解决方案是考虑小问题：智能建筑、小规模可再生能源和本地分布的绿色能源。但彼得·福克斯·彭纳明确表示，这些将不足以满足我们日益增长的电力需求。相反，他指出，大型电力系统、电池存储和可扩展的无碳电力技术，以及将它们整合在一起的电网和市场是不可或缺的。电力行业及其监管机构将不得不提供所有这些，即使它们正在努力应对当地电力公司不断变化的商业模式、政治动荡和技术变革。碳后电对所有运动部件都有意义，为参与或依赖电力系统的任何人提供可操作的建议。
Power after Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid
As the electric power industry faces the challenges of climate change, technological disruption, new market imperatives, and changing policies, a renowned energy expert offers a roadmap to the future of this essential sector.
As the damaging and costly impacts of climate change increase, the rapid development of sustainable energy has taken on great urgency. The electricity industry has responded with necessary but wrenching shifts toward renewables, even as it faces unprecedented challenges and disruption brought on by new technologies, new competitors, and policy changes. The result is a collision course between a grid that must provide abundant, secure, flexible, and affordable power, and an industry facing enormous demands for power and rapid, systemic change.
The fashionable solution is to think small: smart buildings, small-scale renewables, and locally distributed green energy. But Peter Fox-Penner makes clear that these will not be enough to meet our increasing needs for electricity. He points instead to the indispensability of large power systems, battery storage, and scalable carbon-free power technologies, along with the grids and markets that will integrate them. The electric power industry and its regulators will have to provide all of these, even as they grapple with changing business models for local electric utilities, political instability, and technological change. Power after Carbon makes sense of all the moving parts, providing actionable recommendations for anyone involved with or relying on the electric power system.
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