Wind Power-no grid to ride on

While expanding wind power across the nation is a realty, most of the turbines sit distant from their markets. And the grid is inadequate. To quote former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. "we have a third world grid". Fragmented and misaligned like a bunch of rambling country roads, there is no super highway for new Solar and Wind generated electricity to travel. With out congress acting to establish an updated national power grid, wind and solar alternatives to oil cannot remotely meet their full potential. See Article.