Secretary Chu continued unperturbed through the rest of his PowerPoint presentation, which amounted to a tidy list of solutions to the grid’s known woes: use smart grid technologies, curb customer demand, end peak demand, develop grid-scale storage, add a nationwide extra-high-voltage DC/AC transmission network, reduce line congestion, encourage interregional cooperation, develop interoperability standards, increase government investment, train a new generation of grid operators, and integrate large numbers of electric vehicles. This is the “solutions” laundry list, and a pretty thorough one,
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