“Microgrids are emerging as a credible threat to the dominance of America’s 100-year-old-plus utility monopoly. The systems use computer software and remote measuring devices to control energy sources such as rooftop solar panels and natural gas-fueled power generators. They allow a home or business owner, a college systems engineer or a farmer on a mountainside to generate, distribute and regulate their locally produced power with an ease and sophistication that only utilities had a few years ago. In the developing world, they may leapfrog the need for conventional utilities — the same way mobile phones leapfrogged the need for landlines.”
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