High anxiety [Back Story]

Shortly before Jean Kumagai arrived on the Danish island of Bornholm to report on a new smart-grid project [see "The Smartest, Greenest Grid"], one of her contacts e-mailed a proposed itinerary. It was packed solid with interviews, she says, "but a little light on excitement." Interviews are the stuff of journalism, of course, but she didn\´t relish the idea of flying 6000 kilometers to sit in conference rooms and stare at PowerPoint slides.