Sunday, December 8, 2013

Power struggle: Green energy versus a grid that's not ready

Minders of a fragile national power grid say the rush to renewable energy might actually make it harder to keep the lights on.
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But the grid is also built on an antiquated tangle of market rules, operational formulas and business models. It makes for a formidable riddle.  Continue...


 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We have the same issues here in New York as described in this piece about California.

State energy planners are getting sober again.