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capitalgainsandgames.com - 1/8/2009
What Should Obama Do First? Modernize the Electric Grid
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Continuing the series , it is all well and good to talk about switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but little progress will be made if the electricity cannot be transmitted from the location of the renewables (sun in the Southwest, wind in the Midwest) and the location of the ...

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The Smart Grid and the Fiscal Stimulus
Marginal Revolution — ... wind potential]...But the existing transmission system doesn't have the capacity to get that much electricity to the parts of the country that need it. In many of the states in the [wind] region, there's no particular urgency to move things along, since each has all the power it needs. So most of the applications for grid connections are simply waiting in line, some stymied by the lack of infrastructure and others by bureaucratic and regulatory delays. Hat tip to Andrew Samwick who writes: The federal government is the entity that can ...

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