California: shift to renewable energy

In mid-July, I wrote a post about Sweden and its shift to green energy. Bloomberg had an article up about how Sweden's economic growth could be hurt while it shifted to green energy.

I recently was scanning CalMatters for articles that might address pension issues. Instead of finding any interesting articles on pensions, I instead came across a three part article on energy. The first asked if California could keep the lights on. The second looked into cyber-sabotage and the final looked at how to get to the future.

Sweden and Energy

I haven't done any posts on Sweden for awhile so figured I'd do a google search and see what comes up. Bloomberg had an article up on electric vehicles and how Sweden wants to eliminate sales of fossil-fueled cars by 2030.

Demand for electricity in Stockholm and other cities is outgrowing capacity in local grids, forcing new charging networks to compete with other projects from housing to subway lines to get hooked up . . . For the rise in electric vehicles to be manageable despite the lack of power capacity, Power Circle suggests that owners should receive incentives not to charge and even send power back to the grid during morning and afternoon peak hours.