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Published online 30 July 2008 | Nature 454, 570-573 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454570a
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Energy: Upgrading the grid
Electricity grids must cope with rising demand and complexity in a changing world. Emma Marris explores the intricacies involved in controlling the power supply.
On a hilltop in the small city of Vancouver, Washington, just across the Columbia river from Portland, Oregon, sits a concrete building owned by the the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency that runs the electricity grid in the Pacific Northwest. In that building's basement one can find Albert Orona enthroned behind a bank of monitors, facing a wall-sized map of the region's power grid.
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