Most of the grid here was built with Marshall plan money after the war and has barely been touched since. Renovations are under way but will take another decade or so. And yes, outages are frequent.
Yeah, and some areas are remote enough it will be multiple decades.
Even phasing out propane heat is likely to take several generations (if ever).
My point was more that I don’t think it’s an engineering problem anymore. The direct problems there have been solved.
It’s more of an infrastructure/capex one, and the economic pressure to change or not is often about the economic cost of various options like the ratio of the price of a gallon of diesel to a kwh.
And it’s not looking as favorable towards ICE as it used to be.
