The reshaping of our national power grid will provide profound benefits to consumers, but it will also bring enormous liabilities that could equal-or even outweigh-the very problems we hope to solve. Without question, something has to change in the electrical grid. While decreased economic activity has leveled off the rise in demand in the short term, long-term forecasts still show significant growth. According to the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), an organization of U.S. electrical grid operators, transmission capacity continues to lag behind demand and will need to increase by more than 10 percent over the next 10 years.
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