SMART GRID EDUCATION.

Each year U.S. colleges graduate about 800-1,000 engineering students who have expressed interest in electric power, and about 550 graduate students obtain advanced degrees in power engineering. Yet electric utilities are expected to need 7,000 newly minted engineers in the next five years, and total industrial and governmental demand could be twice that.

It’s not a problem. Before you need power engineers to run the smart grid, you need power. The Obama administration has put regulations in place to assure that there won’t be any.