NPR's electric grid

by Mindy Hiteshue — last modified Jun 10, 2009 05:00 PM
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NPR has the coolest tool on their website. It's an interactive map of power sources, power lines, and power types (power plant, solar power, or wind power). It's a great way to visualize not only where you get your power from, but how the entire nation is connected, and the different ways other states get the majority of their power.

Try clicking the "power plants" tab at the top...you can mouse over the dots of power plants nation-wide to view more information about each plant. I must admit that while it is amazing to see how inter-connected our nation's energy grid is, it's also quite distressing that so little of our energy is coming from wind and solar efforts. I wonder what this grid will look like in 10, 30, 50 years...

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jessilyn Jun 11, 2009 02:34 PM
And what's even crazier is that the orange lines that make the most sense haven't been built yet! So what we have right now is the current blue lines...which are kind of distressing as there's only one line that joins our East Coast to our West! This shows we need to work on our smart grid technology. And think of all those green jobs that it would create Nationwide!
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