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China Rebuilds Its Power Grid as Part of Its Clean Technologies Push

In China’s bid to become a world leader in clean energy, it is finding that its power grid can’t handle the new technologies. The New York Times reports: State Grid Corp. of China, the country’s top electricity distributor, hopes to get around this impasse by building what it calls a “strong, smart grid.” After two years of testing its grid plan, the company is now th