This week, the company put its money where its mouth is, plugging its own information technology department into the new Sun Grid.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Tessa Munt has urged the National Grid (NG) to consider using the new technology in its plans to install new electricity lines in Somerset.

BBC: National Grid urged to use underground cables in Somerset

And yet, that view would obscure a storm of new innovation and technology deployment which may well radically change the power grid forever.

FORBES: The Economist: Innovation Almost Dead. Perhaps Not So In Electricity

Fortunately, the power challenge is not new to technology providers who have experienced the result of higher consumption and grid utilization.

FORBES: The Growing Energy Demands Of Living Your Life In The Cloud

The White House also released a new report, A Policy Framework for a 21stCentury Grid, produced by the Cabinet-level National Science and technology Council.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog