{"id":222000,"date":"2025-09-17T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/if-every-us-home-and-personal-vehicle-goes-electric-power-outages-could-spike-unless-key-measures-are-taken"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:20:46","slug":"if-every-us-home-and-personal-vehicle-goes-electric-power-outages-could-spike-unless-key-measures-are-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/if-every-us-home-and-personal-vehicle-goes-electric-power-outages-could-spike-unless-key-measures-are-taken","title":{"rendered":"If every US home and personal vehicle goes electric, power outages could spike unless key measures are taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-every-us-home-and-personal-vehicle-goes-electric-power-outages-could-spike-unless-key-measures-are-taken3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A future where all homes and vehicles in the U.S. are fully electrified could overwhelm power supply and risk outages unless key upgrades are made, says a new study conducted by Purdue University engineers. But a few strategies could cut two-thirds of the potential costs of reinforcing the nation\u2019s distribution grid to handle this demand.<\/p>\n<p>Electrifying would mean switching a home\u2019s heating system from a boiler to a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/heat+pump\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat pump<\/a> and transitioning from gas-or diesel-fueled vehicles to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we install a whole bunch of new electric heating systems for homes and use more electric vehicles and electric water heaters, then we\u2019re going to increase electricity demand a lot. And that\u2019s basically going to require putting in thicker wires, bigger transformers and other infrastructure into the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power+grid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power grid<\/a>,\u201d said Kevin Kircher, a Purdue assistant professor of mechanical engineering and faculty member in the university\u2019s Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. \u201cAnd if that happens, utilities will pass the cost of those upgrades to us, the customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A future where all homes and vehicles in the U.S. are fully electrified could overwhelm power supply and risk outages unless key upgrades are made, says a new study conducted by Purdue University engineers. But a few strategies could cut two-thirds of the potential costs of reinforcing the nation\u2019s distribution grid to handle this demand. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}