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Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration, is interviewed about Maryland's experience with electric power deregulation, energy and environmentlegislation to come out of the 2008 session of the state legislature, and Maryland's involvement in a multi-state lawsuit against the federal government aimed at being able to regulate vehicle tailpipe emissions to control global climate change.

Net-metering provides many incentives for residential micro-power. Alberta's system uses an approach called "net billing."

Researchers at the University of Alberta are working on a system to send signals through power lines to enhance the electrical grid to betterhandle distributed power generation.

The Midwest has the worst backlog of wind energy projects in the nation. And that's an understatement: The line of applications waiting to be processed could technically take more than 600 years.

Kevin Kovelar, Asst. Secretary of Energy, Office of Electricity Deliverability & Energy Reliability, Department of Energy, describes the Department of Energy's efforts to promote reliability of the U.S. electrical grid, including potential designation of National Transmission Corridors.

Sonny Popowsky, PA Consumer Advocate, describes consumer anxiety to rising electric rates in deregulated markets in which rates were supposed to fall
-- not rise.