Rise of the Smart Grid

摘要

Washington, America's Power center, recently experienced life without power-the kind that gets generated, not the kind that gets wielded. After a nasty storm knocked out the Beltway's electricity for days during a heat wave, power brokers of the political type complained: Didn't President Obama promise a smarter, more reliable grid? Yes, he did. And the blackout notwithstanding, the grid is slowly improving. In fact, its story is a nice parable about change in the Obama era.