In order to understand why the grid has become so much less stable since the early 2000s (and it has), it is important to return again to a more careful consideration of the aftereffects of the Energy Policy Act and accompanying Order 888. Much like the 1996 deregulation bill in California (that made Enron momentarily very rich and that state by equal measure poor), the Energy Policy Act did not separate generation from transmission and distribution just for shits and giggles.
Read this passage and note how it goes from dry legalese to backwoods folksiness in two sentences. This may be a valid stylistic choice but I find it jarring and unpleasant.
