The fact is that as our demand for electricity has increased, our infrastructure -- primarily the electrical grid that connects homes and businesses to power plants across North America -- has not kept pace.
"Over the next 18 months or so we are going to upgrade those facilities, we'll be taking extra space in a number of them and be increasing our headcount and infrastructure around those facilities," said Gnodde.
America has the technological know-how and environmentally sound 21st-century technologies needed to meet the principal energy challenges we face: promoting energy conservation, repairing and modernizing our energy infrastructure and increasing our energy supplies in ways that protect and improve the environment.
We must put people to work renewing and strengthening our schools, roads, bridges, waterways, and communication infrastructure, and increasing our global competitiveness.
"We are concerned that the potential for a catastrophic system failure is increasing as our infrastructure continues to age.
Rebuild our infrastructure, increase our investments in R&D, and race to lead the revolution in clean energy production.
"Well, it's taken our jobs and ruined our infrastructure and increased our healthcare prices so they're unaffordable.
With a call to all nations to "invest in health, and build a safer future," the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the need for collaboration among nations to increase our collective capacity and infrastructure to respond to potential international health emergencies and other public health risks.
America must modernize conservation, modernize our energy infrastructure, increase energy supplies, accelerate the protection and improvement of the environment, and increase our nation's energy security.
Obama wants to increase investment in our infrastructure by building roads and bridges, investing in alternative energy and providing more affordable health care, among other things.
