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Environment & Energy

truedelphi

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3. Huge advantages to individualized rooftop solar panels:

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:40 PM

Sep 2013

You don't need thousands of miles of utility poles to bring you your electricity. So when a storm blasts through an area, unless your property is directly affected, you still have power for your household.

Do that the centralized way, and hundreds of thousands of people suffer needlessly.

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"With Rooftop Solar on Rise, U.S. Utilities Are Striking Back" [View all] applegrove Sep 2013 OP

solar on every suitable rooftop, NOT corporate solar strangling us. It is OUR sun not theirs nt msongs Sep 2013 #1

Huge advantages to individualized rooftop solar panels: truedelphi Sep 2013 #3

Let's not forget defacto7 Sep 2013 #2

Boulder, Colorado, took control. silverweb Sep 2013 #4