The local energy revolution

As a result, everyone misses the point. Energy policy is dominated by a debate over whether we should replace nuclear’s 4% share of supply. It’s time to think bigger than that.

Or, rather, we ought to be thinking small – because the technologies that could really solve our energy problems are at the opposite end of the scale from the nuclear behemoth. What I’m referring to goes under a number of names: microgeneration, micropower and distributed energy are among them. But let’s keep it simple and call it local energy.

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