21st Century Grid Can we fix infrastructure that powers us

The grid is wondrous.

And yet�in part because we've paid so little attention to it, engineers tell us�it's not the grid we need for the 21st century. It's too old. It's reliable but not reliable enough, especially in the United States, especially for our mushrooming population of finicky digital devices.

Source:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/power-grid/achenbach-text/1