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Is “The Grid Of The Future” Running In Denmark?
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This short video looks at how a tiny island is helping Denmark reach its goal of producing 100 percent clean power by 2030.
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On Denmark’s Road To Renewable Power
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Renewable energy seems to be taking off in the US, but there are serious challenges—both technological and social—that come along with adding more solar and wind to the grid. Denmark has faced similar challenges as it has transitioned from almost no renewables in the mid-90s to almost half of its power supply today.
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Grid Guinea Pigs On A Tiny Danish Island
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On an island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, Denmark is testing solutions for the electricity grid of the future.
Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Sneak Peek: Blackout!
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The animated trailer for the investigative series Blackout: Reinventing The Grid!
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On A Tiny Danish Island: Making Electricity Demand Meet Supply
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Denmark gets some 40 percent of its power from wind energy, but it’s aiming for even more—going fully renewable by 2030. In order to do that, it’s going to have to shake up the traditional relationship between electricity supply and demand, and the country is looking to a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea for guidance.
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Why Smart Meters Don’t Make A Smart Grid
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In 2009, President Obama promised to modernize the electric grid, using stimulus money. The new power grid would be smart and efficient, bringing the tech revolution to electricity. It would incorporate more renewable energy. It would have the ability to fix blackouts more quickly. And, it would save customers a whole lot of money. So whatever happened to that plan? (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #3)
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Our Electric Grid, So Misunderstood
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Public knowledge about the grid is pretty limited and that limits the possibilities for modernization. (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #2)
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When The Largest Machine In The World Fails
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If you could peer behind an electrical plug in your house, you’d find a massive network of transmission lines and power plants and a whole army of people bringing power to the socket in real-time, 24 hours a day. It’s the largest machine in the world: the power grid. Most of the time it operates invisibly, in the background, but when it fails, it often does so memorably. To most people, those outages seem like isolated events, but when you look at the trend, they’re not. (Blackout: Reinventing the Grid #1)
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IE Questions: What Causes Blackouts?
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The world’s largest machine has a big job: bringing us electricity. So what happens when it doesn’t? This week’s IE question looks back at some of the biggest power outages in recent history.
