{"644299":{"#nid":"644299","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Severe weather, blackouts show the grid\u0027s biggest problem is infrastructure, not renewables","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmily Grubert, an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in the article \u0026quot;Severe weather, blackouts show the grid\u0026#39;s biggest problem is infrastructure, not renewables,\u0026quot; published Feb. 15, 2021 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETechCrunch\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA tweet from Gruber commenting on recent blackouts resulting from a winter storm in the Midwest was featured in the story from author Jonathan Shieber, which explored issues with the power infrastructure that contributed to the blackouts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Dr. Emily Grubert, an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, noted, the problem is more of a total systems issue than one associated with renewable power.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Let us be absolutely clear: if there are grid failures today, it shows the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eexisting\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(largely fossil-based) system cannot handle these conditions either,\u0026quot; Grubert\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilygrubert\/status\/1361011767439220748?s=20\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewrote on Twitter\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026quot;These are scary, climate change-affected conditions that pose extreme challenges to the grid. We are likely to continue to see situations like this where our existing system cannot easily handle them.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAny\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;electricity system needs to make massive adaptive improvements.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/severe-weather-blackouts-shows-grids-181628231.html\u0022\u003EFull story.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-02-16 16:26:17","changed_gmt":"2021-02-16 16:26:17","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quantum and Semiconductor Physics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/severe-weather-blackouts-shows-grids-181628231.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"644297":{"id":"644297","type":"image","title":"Emily Grubert","body":null,"created":"1613492548","gmt_created":"2021-02-16 16:22:28","changed":"1641935487","gmt_changed":"2022-01-11 21:11:27","alt":"Headshot of Emily Grubert","file":{"fid":"248162","name":"Grubert-Emily-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Grubert-Emily-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Grubert-Emily-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12448,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Grubert-Emily-v.jpg?itok=Mkog6KN9"}}},"media_ids":["644297"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}