If You Like ObamaCare, You Will Love This Story On Renewable Energy --

The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

As states, led by California, race to bring more wind, solar and geothermal power online, those and other forms of alternative energy have become a new source of anxiety. The problem is that renewable energy adds unprecedented levels of stress to a grid designed for the previous century.

Green energy is the least predictable kind. Nobody can say for certain when the wind will blow or the sun will shine. A field of solar panels might be cranking out huge amounts of energy one minute and a tiny amount the next if a thick cloud arrives. In many cases, renewable resources exist where transmission lines don't.
"The grid was not built for renewables," said Trieu Mai, senior analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The frailty imperils lofty goals for greenhouse gas reductions. Concerned state and federal officials are spending billions of dollars in ratepayer and taxpayer money in an effort to hasten the technological breakthroughs needed for the grid to keep up with the demands of clean energy.

Making a green energy future work will be "one of the greatest technological challenges industrialized societies have undertaken," a group of scholars at Caltech said in a recent report. The report notes that by 2030, about $1 trillion is expected to be spent nationwide in bringing the grid up to date.

And, of course, that $1 trillion will all be paid for by consumers. See Forbes. This answers the question why electric rates are rising even as natural gas is falling in price. One can thank the current administration for one more hidden tax that we will all be paying long after the president is out of office. 

Health care and renewable energy sort of reminds me of Vietnam's legacy, The Best and The Brightest:

The focus of the book is on the erroneous foreign policy crafted by the academics and intellectuals who were in John F. Kennedy's administration [Harvard University, like current president], and the disastrous consequences of those policies in Vietnam. The title referred to Kennedy's "whiz kids"—leaders of industry and academia brought into the Kennedy administration—whom Halberstam characterized as arrogantly insisting on "brilliant policies that defied common sense" in Vietnam, often against the advice of career U.S. Department of State employees.

I can already see the 2035 book, O's Best and Brightest, with this review written in 2036:

The focus of the book is on the erroneous domestic policy crafted by the academics and intellectuals who were in Barack O'Bama's administration, and the disastrous consequences of those policies now facing the average American. The title referred to Obama's "whiz kids"—community organizers and academic pinheads brought into the O'Bama administration—whom Halberstam, Jr., characterized as arrogantly insisting on "brilliant policies that defied common sense" in both health care and energy, often against the advice of career bureaucrats, businessmen, and Bakken operators.