Grist: Ron Binz is an experienced electricity regulator who understands the important role that wind and solar power are playing as they pour electrons into grids across the country. He was the lead author of a paper last year that described how boosting renewable energy infrastructure could hedge against fossil-fuel cost increases, aging equipment, and other risks. This is no time for backward-looking decision making, he wrote in that paper [PDF], published by the nonprofit Ceres. It is vital for...