By Andrew Campbell of Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | Link to article
Today’s release of the final Clean Power Plan by President Obama ushers in an exciting period of change on US power grids. Wind and solar energy will get a big boost through the plan. The plan recognizes that to sustain public support for this strategy, the costs of integrating the new technologies need to be kept down and the grid needs to remain reliable. Several revisions to the draft plan were made specifically to provide time and flexibility to ensure the lights stay on while more clean energy sources join the grid. An important accommodation is carefully phasing in targets.