Twin Crises: Immigration & Electricity Infrastructure - Frosty Wooldridge
April 24, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Since 2000, the U.S. added 26-29 million people driven primarily by legal and illegal immigration. Within the next 10 years, another 30 million people expect to call the USA home-again driven by unrelenting immigration.
The problem: too many people
"Why haven't electric utilities built sufficient supply?" said Rubenstein. "Many factors can be cited as explanations, but a good place to start is at the source of all power: electric generators. They are costly and must be sized according to the population served. If a million people are added to the U.S. population, then utilities must come up with another $1 billion for a billion watts of new electric generators. If 142 million are added, the expected population growth between now and 2050, utilities must come up with an added $142 billion just to keep generator capacity at recommended per-capita levels."
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