This CHARGE act legislation is to build a renewable energy ‘superhighway’. According to this, the existing electric infrastructure is old and antiquated and needs to be upgraded. It seems that if the existing system is working adequately then it’s not that bad. The renewables could be connected to the existing generators at their locations and everything would be essentially the same. The transmission system should be less star topology and more ring or buss topology to provide redundancy. Hopefully it is already that way. If not then it should be upgraded to “improve reliability”. Note that I’m talking about the transmission system, the backbone of the grid. I’m not talking about the distribution system, which is far too extensive to be upgraded – it’d be far too expensive.