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New Tool Models Future Energy Costs and Carbon Implications for 13 U.S. Areas

Sept. 21, 2020

graphic illustrating a web dashboard comprised of charts, a CO2 molecule, land lightening bolt; "Energy Futures Dashboard--An interactive product of the Energy Infrastructure of the Future study"

AUSTIN, Texas — A new online interactive dashboard enables users to understand the costs and impacts of major supplies and demands of energy through the year 2050 across the U.S.

The old, dirty, creaky US electric grid would cost $5 trillion to replace. Where should infrastructure spending go?

March 17, 2017
The electric grid is an amazing integrated system of machines spanning an entire continent. The National Academy of Engineering has called it one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century...