Sudden Surplus Calls for Quick Thinking

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 07:35 in Physics & Chemistry

Engineers say that if the power grid becomes more reliant on renewable energy, at some point a lot of new transmission lines will have to be built or there will be unhappy consequences. Mostly this problem has been predicted rather than experienced. But the future may have arrived last month, when the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency that oversees power transmission in the Pacific Northwest, had more energy than it could comfortably use.

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