This article sheds light on a proposal that is starting to garner attention in California, which ultimately aims to revolutionize California’s electricity system to be cleaner, more reliable, and more resilient. The proposal aims to change the old electricity system, which was a “centralized, top-down, long-distance, one-way” system to a “decentralized, bottom-up, local, networked” electrical system. However, this proposal is still in its infancy and has only recently begun to be studied, but there are scientific ideas and studies that show that certain concepts behind this system are already proving to be effective in other parts of the United States. Among these concepts that are proving to be effective are microgrids made up of many local “solar+storage+smart inverter systems” networked together that help balance out consumption and generation more efficiently during blackouts, while costing just as much as current California grid power in various regions.
Source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/11/03/0210245/does-california-need-a-more-decentralized-energy-system
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