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Can AI help connect more solar and wind farms to the power grid?
The Department of Energy is spending millions to try to make it happen.
Power grids with more renewable energy tend to be less centralized, with electricity coming from a more distributed network of smaller solar, wind, and battery projects. New solar and onshore wind farms are generally cheaper sources of electricity than coal or gas now, and they don’t create air pollution or contribute to climate change. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plans for Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” include “ mass head-count reductions ” across federal agencies.
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