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How your air conditioner can help the power grid, rather than overloading it

  • Written by Johanna Mathieu, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan
imageCould this common home machinery help usher in more renewable energy?Holden Henry/iStock / Getty Images Plus

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do I really need it? And how bad...

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