https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/electricity-grid-capacity-a-2030-imperative/
Tallying some of the challenges during a recent online media briefing sponsored by the United States Energy Association, Andres Carvallo, an engineering professor and specialist in smart technology applications based at Texas State University, noted that the U.S. currently has about 1,100 gigawatts of electricity production capacity nationwide. Meanwhile, the 280 million registered automobiles in the country would theoretically represent 28,000 gigawatts of demand if they were all somehow magically converted to electric vehicles (EVs) with 100-kilowatt batteries.
“We are going to add 28,000 gigawatts (of demand) in the next 20 to 30 years. This needs to be done in a very, very, very well-integrated and thoughtful way,” Carvallo cautioned. “Otherwise, we will start having serious brownouts.”
“Broadband is the single most important missing piece of the whole thing being stitched together,” Carvallo asserted. “All this needs to be controlled real-time. If it’s not, it doesn’t matter what we do; it doesn’t matter how much energy we pump; this grid is never going to deliver what we need.”