Google and GE team on clean energy policy, tech

General Electric and Google on Wednesday announced a collaboration to lobby for renewable energy policies and to jointly develop clean technologies.  The emphasis will be on pressuring the Federal Government to assist in the building of a "smarter"  electrical transmission grid.  This is exactly what needs to happen.  Right now electricity generators such as wind farms are not able to produce at full capacity because the electrical grid is not able to accept what they are able to produce.  The state utilities won't improve the grid by themselves simply because there currently is no advantage to Nevada to improve the transmission of electricity that is going to end up in California, for example.  The Federal Government is going to have to take the lead on this.  Hopefully this collaboration between Google and GE will help move this forward.

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