With an emphasis on stopping global warming, using wind and solar, getting rid of coal and nukes, you need a big electrical grid.  And that is what the US Department of Energy is studying right now under the name “The 2012 National Transmission Electricity Congestion Study.”  You see it here first; lots of transmission poles are coming your way. And the Federal Agency that regulates pricing the FERC or Federal Energy Regulatory Agency, is paying companies in excess of 12% for their equity, even in this dismal economy.