In February of this year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gave a presentation entitled Visioning the 21st Century Electricity Industry: Strategies and Outcomes for America. This was a product of an internal DOE workshop to envision what the nation’s power sector could become by 2035, in order to inform and coordinate the DOE’s electricity-related activities and programs. While it may have gone mostly unnoticed in the energy industry, this vision did point out an interesting aspect to our nation’s power grid: the “blurring of transmission and distribution (T&D) presents numerous challenges and opportunities for innovation and outreach.”

via How the smart grid can solve the missing link in the power grid — Cleantech News and Analysis.

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