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Gretchen Bakke

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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The Grid

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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