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Ideas to bolster power grid run up against the system's many owners
2013-07-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Bill Richardson often denigrated Americas power transmission network as a third-world grid when he was President Bill Clintons energy secretary, but the more current description of it is balkanized, with 500 separate owners. Marc L. Spitzer, a former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said even that analogy was not harsh enough. To call the U.S. grid balkanized would insult the Macedonians, he said. When President Obama presented his plans last month for executive action...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical