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lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:


> I  wonder if it's time to scrap the idea of transmitting power all around 
> the  country. As the price of PVs comes down, I would think it would make 
> more  sense to have smaller neighborhood or individual power generation.

There are quite a few places in this area where folks have done just that.  
Some are up in the so-called unorganized townships where they don't really 
have much structure in place to make decisions, others are groups that have 
been somehow 'deleted' from the grid system because of physical changes 
(mostly involving dams opened for fish movement), and probably the largest 
batch of 'em are the groups of people who are unofficial (as in not really 
organized or so-recognized officially) intentional communities who have from 
the time they came together (late 60s and through the 70s) always had their 
own small plants/solar installations.  A couple of those I know have a 
solar/wind combination, several are nearby to here.

I'd guess, although I haven't talked to any of them lately, that they are 
feeling a bit 'ahead of the game' right about now.

Susan Jane, in Maine