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Obama’s Renewable Energy Initiative May Not Bring Power to the People

Posted on | February 15, 2009 |

The Obama energy initiative calls for a new national grid, a “smart grid” even, but David Morris of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance argues that a new high-voltage national grid is not the answer.

Building a new high-voltage transmission line diverts resources from the more important task of making the best use of the existing electrical network and integrating the new generation of decentralizing energy technologies.

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Building new transmission lines requires the federal government to increasingly pre-empt state and local authority, which may undermine a generation of advances in state electricity regulation.

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