Someone else noticed this. Thanks. Keep up the good work Ken. "Cap & trade was a deal by which certain corporations -- primarily Enron -- could gain an enormous new profit center, while others were provided political cover to support climate action under the guise of a "free market" solution. By splitting the monolithic bloc of private sector opposition, EDF and others hoped to cobble together a power base strong enough to overcome the oil/auto axis."   more »

How to replace all those big GHG spewing power plants with solar panels on buildings, wind farms, and distributed biogas power generation plants? And control the flow so that the grid still operates consistently as with the old central power plant design. You do that with this. A smart grid, this Xcel energy project is very encouraging.   more »