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Utility Death Spiral?  The Duck has Your Back

Utility Death Spiral? The Duck has Your Back

by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 28, 2014 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant

There is weekly, if not daily, chatter about the end of the monopolistic electric utility systems we have today.  They call it the utility death spiral, and it goes like this: Distributed generation, also known as DG, which includes rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV)...

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