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By Lester R. Brown
More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system. Existing electricity grids are typically a patchwork of local grids that are simultaneously inefficient, wasteful, and dysfunctional in that they often [...]
Posted: 2010-02-17 12:24:15Author:Earth Policy Institute |