BURN is back!

Thanks to your great support—and with a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—we are offering a new BURN special this summer. Available now!

Here are the details:

BURN: An Energy Journal

The Switch with host Alex Chadwick
A July 4th special, when energy use across the country is most in demand.

Our nation’s power grid, the patchwork system that transmits and distributes electricity from plants to consumers, is aging and stretched to capacity—especially in summer months when users face triple-digit temperatures, violent storms and power outages.

BURN examines the state of America’s electric power grid and the science needed to modernize it.

• Can 21st century electrical engineers use “smart grid” technology to prevent power outages?
• What are the challenges involved in linking new sources of energy, such as wind and solar, to the grid?
• Our stories will include a profile of an electric-power lineman who works on top of those poles that support the grid.
• Alex Chadwick will also explore the challenges when there’s no grid at all, following the research of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, which aims to incorporate new technologies to solve critical problems on the battlefield, like energy.

BURN: An Energy Journal – The Switch
Feed Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m. Eastern
Rights: For broadcast before September 30, 2013.

And you should also know:

• More than 300 stations across the country carried our four 2012 BURN specials—thank you!
• We will continue to partner with Marketplace, with a new energy piece from Alex every month.
• BURN’s stories for Marketplace will also include a variety of features for and with National Geographic.
• BURN will collaborate on National Geographic’s new three-year project, “The Energy Challenge”—watch for updates.

For promotion information (photos and logos), on-air promo copy, in-depth program descriptions, clock and other broadcast support information, go to apmstations.org.

Visit our website at burnanenergyjournal.com or contact Marge Ostroushko: mostroushko@visi.com or 612-418-6255.