Reconfigured Grids

This is an interesting article that describes how the effective deployment of a lightweight renewable 21st century energy infrastructure will require re-working of the 20th centruy power grid in Europe.

A Supergrid for Europe - Technology Review

Europe has big plans for greatly expanding its renewable energy sources, but there's a problem: weak connections between a patchwork of national power grids. The situation is particularly problematic for wind power, because smaller, isolated grids have more difficulty absorbing the variable power generated by wind farms.