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The future is electric

Samantha Gross,
Samantha Gross, Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, The Brookings Institution
Samantha Gross Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Roger Kranenburg,
Roger Kranenburg
Roger Kranenburg Vice President, Energy Strategy & Policy - Eversource Energy
Leah Stokes, and
Leah Stokes
Leah Stokes Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - University of California Santa Barbara
David G. Victor
David Victor, Co-Chair, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
David G. Victor Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

November 9, 2022

19 April 2020, Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg: A Japanese ornamental cherry blossoms on the Holzweg in Magdeburg. Next to it stands a large power pole. Photo: Stephan Schulz/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB
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This episode of “Climate Sense” is about electricity—the stuff that comes out of the outlet in your wall. Electricity is the future, but many of us don’t think about it beyond the wall plug. In this episode, Samantha Gross explains that electricity is central to transforming our energy system. The costs of wind and solar electricity have plummeted in recent years, making them no longer cool and expensive, but now cool and cheap, in many cases cheaper than the fossil fuel electricity they replace. And electricity is a clean, quiet, and very efficient method for using energy in everything from homes to transportation to industry.

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Samantha Gross, Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, The Brookings Institution
Samantha Gross Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Roger Kranenburg
Roger Kranenburg Vice President, Energy Strategy & Policy - Eversource Energy
Leah Stokes
Leah Stokes Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - University of California Santa Barbara
David Victor, Co-Chair, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
David G. Victor Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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