Obama to announce modernisation of us electricity grid
President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce the largest modernisation of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to unleash a new era of renewable energy consumption.
Platts reported that, in an important procedural victory for US President Mr Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress, the US Senate has voted to advance a massive economic stimulus bill that would provide billions of dollars to modernize the electricity grid and to develop a host of cutting edge energy technologies.