Building solar farms and wind parks is one thing. Plugging them into the grid is another. How does our power system need to change to cope with more renewables? Credits: Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann Video Editor: Frederik Willmann Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #RenewableEnergy #Grid Read More: Integrating Renewable Energy Resources into the Grid: https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/renewables-101-integrating-renewables/ Energy Transitions Commissions report: https://www.energy-transitions.org/publications/financing-the-transition-etc/ Where wind power is harnessed (U.S.): https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is-harnessed.php#:~:text=Favorable%20sites%20include%20the%20tops,high%20as%20900%20feet%20tall. Report on Grid-Scale Storage: https://www.iea.org/reports/grid-scale-storage Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:13 How the grid works 02:43 More renewables, more problems 05:37 How the grid was built 07:00 What needs to happen 10:47 Conclusion