Thread by @dana1981

Need a break from doomscrolling about the decline of American society? I wrote about the #ElectrifyEverything strategy for @citizensclimate today. My blog post on why and how to electrify, plus a thread 🧵discussing some additional nuances [1/5]:
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/policy/ho…

It’s critical to decarbonize the electricity sector ASAP because marginal demand increase is often supplied by fossil fuels. One recent study found that increased marginal electricity emissions would offset >half the reductions from deploying EVs [2/5]
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

That's because "underlying these trends is primarily a shift toward greater reliance on coal to satisfy marginal electricity use." So we need to phase out coal quickly, which a #carbonprice would accomplish, or other targeted policies like clean electricity standards [3/5]

But decarbonizing electricity – which carbon pricing would accelerate – is a super important part of an #electrifyeverything agenda so that we realize all the gains of powering technologies with clean electricity and don't lose a big chunk to increased coal burning [4/5]

Then as you get clean electricity, obviously the more fossil fuel applications you can replace with electric ones, the better: EVs, heat pumps, induction stoves, some industrial applications, etc. #Electrifyeverything can do a lot, as my post details [5/5]
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/policy/ho…