ENERGY - Perverse Economics of the Electric Grid: As Generation Gets Cheaper, Transmission Costs Soar

Electrons are cheap - at least electrons are cheap to create. Until recently, it was also cheap to deliver electrons from power plants to customers. That is no longer the case. The electric grid may once have been an engine of economic efficiency, but these days it looks more like an albatross hanging like a noose around our economy's future prospects. To make matters worse, it appears to be tightening.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/01/02/the-perverse-ec