Expert Note
Grid Modernization: Creating Jobs, Cutting Electric Bills, and Improving Resiliency
Build Back Better: Rebooting the U.S. Economy After COVID-19
Synopsis
Modernizing America’s electric grid infrastructure presents a unique opportunity to not only upgrade decades old infrastructure systems, but also to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the near term and generate sustained, economy-wide benefits over the long term.
Projects
Coronavirus Recovery
Visit ProjectDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, WRI offered research and expert insights to help policymakers, business leaders and others build back in ways that could grow economies, create jobs, curb climate change and improve public health.
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