Rebuilding from 2011 Earthquake, Japanese Towns Choose to Go Off the Grid

Yale e360
Sep 19, 2017, 1:26 pm84 pts
Many of the cities in northern Japan damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami are building back their electric grids with renewable energy and micro-grids — bucking the nation’s old, centralized utility system by making communities in the region self-sufficient in generating electricity, Reuters reported.…

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