First, all the greenie power people are now about to see what hundreds and thousands of windmills and solar panels and ALL the connecting transmission wires and stations will look like, all at the point of a Federal spear.
I hope they like their new landscape vistas.
Second, this "Smart Grid" is just a name for control technologies that are not necessarily new or even desirable from a consumer standpoint.....
.....They will have the ability to change your thermostat for you, even if you don't want it changed.
That's just one example of "demand side management and control".
You see, we have abandoned the premise that we should build a ROBUST electric generation, transmission, and distribution system based on redundancy and reliability with enough capacity to serve the NEEDS.
We now will tell you how much power you can use and will only build enough capacity as defined by pinhead enviro-nazi bureaucrats.
“Smart Grid” is about taking your FREEDOM away
It's not THEIR landscape vistas at risk. The windmills will stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico --right through the heartland. The energy those wind farms generate will be piped to the coasts.
We get all the bad stuff, and they get the low-cost power.