Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now

Filthy coal-fired power plants spew carbon into the air. A mish-mash of 9,200 generators streams vital electrons along 300,000 miles of aging, inefficient transmission lines and one untrimmed tree in the wrong place could plunge a quarter of the country into darkness. This is our electric grid. A whopping 40 percent of all the energy used in the U.S.–be it oil, gas, wind, or solar–is converted into electrons that travel over these wires. Any attempt at energy reform must begin here.

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