Huge hopes (and vast sums of money) are being pinned on the so-called Intelligent Grid: a new network of electricity systems feeding information about supply and demand across the grid all the time. Peter Day asks what's happening to our power supplies, and why.
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
Editor: Stephen Chilcott
Published on Tuesday, 21st September 2010.
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