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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by Someone1234 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:48AM (#12344136)
You can see their position. The infrastructure isn't cheap to maintain, and if a lot of people move from on-grid to off-grid the costs don't decrease for them, they just have less revenue.

This wouldn't be so bad in places with non-profit power companies, but the for-profit power companies are going to feel some pressure.

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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:09PM (#12345963)
Maybe the era of big grids should come to an end.

A neighborhood can share a neighborhood sized grid in a much cheaper way than an utility managing city-sized one. Even more if the only function of the grid is connecting into the nearby big battery and sharing some energy when one of the houses has a problem.

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