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Prologue
In late 2002, under a grant from the
Lounsbery Foundation, the Electrical Engineering Department of the
University of Illinois organized a conference in Palo Alto to
examine the viability of the SuperGrid concept. This workshop,
SuperGrid 1, concluded there were no fundamental technical barriers
to achieving the vision. Its report is in the
Appendices below and can
also be found at the
UIUC SuperGrid Website and on the
SuperGrid
Pages of Paul Grant’s Website. The latter site contains additional
extensive background and historical material on the technologies
underlying the vision. One of the recommendations of SuperGrid 1 was
to hold a follow-on workshop that would examine in some detail those
issues, both technical and societal, that would require further
attention and provide a program agenda to be undertaken by academic,
governmental and industrial entities. These present Proceedings
contain the preliminary and “unfiltered” findings of SuperGrid 2
which was held under the co-sponsorship of the Lounsbery Foundation
and EPRI.
Organization
We will follow roughly the chronological
order of the presentations as found in the Workshop Agenda, except
we will insert after each plenary talk those comments fed back by
the relevant “break-out” sessions so that the reader can easily
associate the two temporally separate and sometimes parallel events.
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Public Lecture
Big Ways to Decarbonize the Energy System
Jesse Ausubel, Rockefeller University
Introduction
Welcome and Agenda
Tom Overbye, UIUC
SuperGrid Vision
Chauncey Starr, EPRI (video interview by Paul Grant)
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