> The future may be distributed power generation. This may not happen
> easily in US since it has an old power distribution system (remember the
> blackout back in 2003). In many part of the world, it is actually possible.
Afaict the blackouts were more the result of noone enforcing sufficiant 
redundancy than the age of the grid.

I don't see what distributed generation is going to solve. Many people 
who do thier own generation use the grid as a battery. This works as 
long as only a few people do it but ultimately if there is going to be 
significant energy coming from renewables the stoarge problem is going 
to hit regardless of whether those renewables are centralised or 
distributed. It may cut out some distribution losses but IIRC 
distribution losses aren't all that significant.

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