Brendan I. Koener just wrote a great feature for Wired Magazine about updating the electric grid. I highly recommend it. It pretty much explains the way electric grid works, as well as the technology and policies that need to be put in place to make creating a 21 century grid more efficient and capable of shifting to a clean energy future. There are nifty pictures throughout the article that make it really assessable.
The story explains everything from smart metering and smart grid technology, decoupling plans, incentives that are catalyzing updating the grid, and energy storage, something that is needed to allow for more clean energy.
Accordingly "tweaking the grids communication capabilities can increase transmission efficiency by 50%, no wires necessary", explains Rodger Anderson of Columbia Universities Center for Computational Learning Systems.
See the point and case is that with the right technology and market incentives America can run everything off alternative energy sources, and lead the way into a clean energy future.
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