Forbes Provides Nice Update Regarding Personal/Private Electric Grid

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Two energy-related trends are converging and are potentially contradicting the goal of generating increasing levels of green power.

Some utilities are expanding their transmission networks to accommodate more wind and solar power, but certain commercial and residential users are trying to break free from their local utilities by producing their own electricity. Those distributed systems, or on-site systems, would reduce the number of customers tied to the central network. Fewer participants could then erode the ability to pay for upgrades to carry green power over long distances.

The northeastern U.S. and Texas, generally, stand in contrast to California. Northeast Utilities, for example, is adding a lot of transmission throughout its New England territories so that its grid can transport more wind electrons that are replacing some retiring power plants. It will spend $4 billion on expansions and upgrades, the utility said in a conference call.