Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis | Fast Company

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis | Fast Company: "The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone. Companies like GE and IBM are talking in terms of up to half of American homes generating their own electricity, renewably, within a decade. But distributed power -- call it the 'microgrid' -- poses an existential threat to the business model the utilities have happily depended on for more than a century. No wonder so many of them are fighting the microgrid every step of the way."