Today, nearly half a million miles of high-voltage transmission lines crisscross the country, but the people planning the future of America's electric grid are thinking small. They say we should build microgrids — small, local systems that could connect and disconnect.
Advocates say the microgrid transformation of our electric infrastructure would make it more resilient to cyberattacks, the effects of nuclear weapons and climate change, and better able to handle electricity generated by renewable resources, such as wind and solar.
It turns out, it's Massachusetts scientists and military engineers on Cape Cod who are leading the way to the microgrid of the future.
Click below to read the full story by Bruce Gellerman at WBUR.