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Grid Technology

Smart grids, microgrids, and the infrastructure of energy distribution — how power gets from source to use.

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Books
Book

The Grid — Gretchen Bakke

The story of America's electrical grid — fragile, ancient, and the battlefield where the energy transition will be won or lost.

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People
Person

Gretchen Bakke

Cultural anthropologist who spent years embedded with utility engineers to understand how the American electrical grid actually works. The Grid (2016) made the infrastructure of the energy transition into a readable book.

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Institutions
Institution

Rocky Mountain Institute

The leading think-tank and consultancy for the clean energy transition — rigorous, practical, and hopeful.

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Smart Electric Power Alliance

Helping utilities navigate the clean energy transition with tools, benchmarking, and peer networks.

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The electric power grid is the largest machine ever built. — U.S. National Academy of Engineering