Infrastructurist: A Plan To Knit Together The US Electric Grid

From Infrastructurist:

It has now become conventional wisdom that America’s electrical grid sucks. Except America doesn’t really have an electrical grid per se — it has three big separate grids. One serves the Midwest and East, one serves the West, and one serves the Republic of Texas (most of it anyway).  That’s not really ideal, especially in a country that’s planning to add lots of generating capacity from wind and solar. Imagine, say, it’s 4 a.m. out west and the wind is blowing like crazy and yet all the demand is further east. The folks who own all that clean green electricity want to have access to a market where everyone isn’t asleep.