I remember reading a CBO

EmmaZahn — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:04:10 +0000

In reply to Cool or creepy: microgrids? Let's vote!

I remember reading a CBO report over a decade making a case for what they called a distributed grid and at least one of their arguments was defense related. The main idea was that power could be rerouted to non-damaged areas more easily whatever the cause of the outage whether war, terror, natural disasters or Enron.

Around the same time companies with sites in California like FedEx that absolutely positively have to stay operational began installing a lot of solar panels on their roofs.

It was a good idea then and still is. Walmart even thinks so. I recently read that it is planning to make their stores able to operate independent of any grid.

Since I have personal aspirations of being my own microgrid (cloud, too!) I vote in favor.

Now if we can just pry the needed infrastructure rights of way from the grasping hands of the utility dinosaurs.

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I remember reading a CBO