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Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities
2013-04-10 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute - the (typically stodgy and backward-looking) trade group of U.S. investor-owned utilities - released a report [PDF] that, as far as I can tell, went almost...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical