Avista has said it was an unwitting participant in energy trades calculated to fool operators of California's energy grid into thinking parts of the system were near overload.
"I've always thought the grid, when you're thinking about beautiful urban planning, is a dead duck.
"Well," she told an interviewer, "when I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied".
He wasn't thinking off-grid.
"They were a cool, cerebral grid of modernism," she said, thinking of ideas to explain the disaster in her work.
But if you can get past the repetitions, the preaching and the gee-whiz tone, "The Global Student" is an interesting exercise in thinking outside the grid, and it's certainly right about the folly and excessive cost of many college-sponsored study-abroad programs.
"And if you are thinking about off-grid, you better home in on this, or you're not gonna be able to afford going off grid".
"Electric vehicles have a lot of potential benefits in terms of reduced emissions," said Chris Kopp, the transit group director at HNTB. "They are probably going to require planners to start thinking about power-grid changes.
