Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org
English - May 15, 2023 17:22 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNature Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the face of climate change, jurisdictions across the country and the world have set ambitious electrification goals that will rely heavily on solar, wind and other zero-carbon energy sources. California is no exception. Increasingly, the state’s power providers are buying low-cost electricity from vast solar farms across the seemingly uninhabited deserts of the American Southwest. But those spaces are not empty. Join Sustainability Now! host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Professor Dustin Mulvaney, of the Environmental Studies Department at San Jose State University. He has been studying the social and ecological impacts of large solar farms on the deserts and whether they can contribute to a “just energy transition.”
Listen to the "Battle for a Solar-Powered Future," with Professors Hilary Angelo and Dustin Mulvaney, on Alec Baldwin's "Here's the Thing."
Read Dustin's article, "The Battle Over Solar Power in California," in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 3, 2022.