Turn-off of the grid

Not to blatantly promote socialism or Keynesian ideals, but it is great to see our government investing in our infrastructure, rather than paying corporations to run civic services, such as schools, prisons and public transit. It won't be easy nor cheap to pull off the new grid for renewable energy and our government won't be able to do it without the help of corporations. But, this $100 billion price tag makes much more sense--utilitarian sense, that is--than a financial services bailout.
Growing the green economy and introduction of using renewable energy requires a better system. Just how bad is our current grid that it can't handle the power from the wind-producing states from the west? Just how much wind power are we talking about if the long term goal is to use 20% of our electricity from renewable energy by 2024? Must be a lot, but if that goal is not reached, the grid could be used to transmit coal-burning energy.
In addition to building the grid, the energy has to come from wind-farms that still need to be built. Which corporations will benefit from these investments? Who are the thought leaders? Google? GE? Verdantic is a San Franciscan living in New York and has never been inland past Vail, Colorado. So when it comes to the Midwest or Great Plains, Verdantic has no idea of who these players are but they are, apparently, the thought leaders on the forefront of our renewable energy grid: Midwest Independent System Operator, SERC Reliability Region, PJM Interconnection LLC, the Southwest Power Pool, the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool and the Tennessee Valley Authority. So there's one dot gov in there but most of them sport an innocuous dot org suffix.