[ericpauley]

GP said electricity consumption, not energy. While it's true that EVs use less energy (in a raw material/CO2 sense), they clearly use more grid-supplied electricity, and grid capacity needs to be built to meet that demand.

[hughesjj]

This is my prior belief as well, but devils advocate: how much electricity does the oil refinement process cost?

I'd wager something like 8% or less relative to the total calorie content of said gasoline, but I have no idea

[rgmerk]

I haven’t bothered to dig through the details of this report, but the total energy use in petroleum refining is about 4% of US total energy consumption.

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7261027

Even making conservative assumptions about how much of that is electricity, net demand for electricity is going to go up.

This is also what the people who model this stuff for a living are predicting - somewhere around doubling to tripling of electricity demand by 2050 IIRC.

[mlyle]

Very little of the energy used in petroleum refining is electricity. About half of it comes from the refinery's own byproducts; and a big remainder is from natural gas or coal used to produce heat.

Indeed, I just peeked at your report and it says the same thing: "Nearly one-half the energy consumed by refineries is obtained from by-product refinery gas and coke, and about one-third is supplied by natural gas. "

[redserk]

If your ISO/RTO isn't coordinating activities to add power generation, you owe it to yourself to move -- and pronto.

Every competent ISO/RTO in the US has already factored additional electricity growth required by EVs and other needs in their mid/long-term plans.

[Skinetio]

Yes and the conclusion is not that we will consume more energy, but we will need to adjust our energy lines.

Its missleading how he wrote it.