Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Eric Fournier: Research Director, California Center for Sustainable Communities; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: California’s power grid is overloaded. Are renewable resources of energy to blame, or is the cause elsewhere?

UCLA News: “We’re at an extremely sensitive, and I would say potentially dangerous, transition point,” Fournier said. “If renewables are painted as the [power grid’s] problem, we may miss the window to prevent… a really desperate, dangerous level of climate change…As the temperature rises, those air conditioners have to work harder to cool the air — which means they draw more power, straining the grid even more… So you get this feedback loop.” 

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