Politicians Still Need Convincing When It Comes to a Decentralized Grid

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By info@greentechmedia.comAug 13, 2019, 5:34 pm500 ptsHot
Electricity grids were once laid out like trees: Power stations were connected to a transmission network or “trunk” through which energy flowed to local distribution networks or “branches” and then on to homes, businesses and other end-users. Power flowed in a single direction and this centralized…

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