POWER PLAYER

摘要

RENEWABLE ENERGY IS A CENTRAL ELEMENT IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATIONS CLIMATE PLANS, a response to President Joe Biden's campaign goal of a 100 percent clean grid by 2035 and the promise of 10 million well-paying green infrastructure jobs. Renewable energy and the power sector must play a central part in this plan if the United States is to meet Biden's ambitious new national climate target The goal, released on Earth Day as part of a virtual international climate gathering ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, is to achieve a 50 percent reduction in climate emissions by 2030 measured against 2005 levels. And clean energy transmission, generation, and storage have a major presence in the American Jobs Plan, the Biden administration's $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal now making its way through Congress. All of this renewable energy would represent a major transformation of the landscape. What would it mean for landscape design, and what would the designer's role be in such a major overhaul of the energy sector? This dean energy transition is already under way- even if the federal government were to completely back away from any new dean energy initiatives, we can expect that actions by the private sector, such as corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs), which let companies contract with specific energy generators to buy energy directly from them, will lead to the construction of many new renewable energy facilities throughout the country as companies try to meet their internal dimate commitments. A number of states and municipalities, induding California, New York, and New Mexico, have committed themselves to 100 percent dean electricity targets through binding legislation. Last year, the bipartisan year-end omnibus spending package, which was signed into law in the final days of 2020, provided $35 billion in support of dean energy and dimate action.