Amit Narayan says the grid is only running at 30% utilization — get it to 60% and you've unlocked 300+ gigawatts with zero new technology, just software and visibility. Why are we still talking about new transmission lines?
"So really, we need to look at the grid as a system that it was designed to be. And once we understand it, we can double the capacity of this grid. And even if we double the capacity of the grid, we are only talking about going from 30% utilization to 60% utilization. So it's not like climbing Mount Everest in terms of efficiency of the system. But that would mean more than 300 gigawatts of capacity and logged on the existing infrastructure which we can do in the next three to five years. Literally, there is no new technology that needs to be deployed or developed for that, basically."
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Amit Narayan says the grid is only running at 30% utilization — get it to 60% and you've unlocked 300+ gigawatts with zero new technology, just software and visibility. Why are we still talking about new transmission lines?