How home solar arrays can help to stabilize the grid
(Blog Post) Electricity has traditionally been distributed using a wheel and spoke grid: power travels from a large central generator to loads distributed around it. In some cases, energy travels very long distances, perhaps 500 to 1,000 miles, before being used. That model is changing. Since solar and wind inject energy at numerous local points, the grid is coming to look more like a network than like a wheel -- making it even harder than it already is to keep power ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
