We need to move on." McCoy believes the best way to get more solar,wind and tidal power on the grid is to offer renewable energy generators a government guarantee.
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In keeping with Earth Hour's initiative, the quadrocopters will utilize batteries that were charged in Austria using green energy from the Austrian renewable energy grid specifically for this event.
Upgrading our grid can play an important role in moving towards these bold but achievable goals, as well as integrating renewable energy into the grid while also becoming better able to facilitate the wider use and charging of electric vehicles.
Of course, more distributed generators contributing variable renewable energy to the grid means an increasing challenge to regulate the consistency of supply and demand.