Terrorism Threats Militate Toward Distributed Generation

Much has been written about the recent Wall Street Journal article asserting that the U.S. grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack which could have a crippling and long-lasting (18-month) effect. 

This, of course, is another good reason to push our energy infrastructure away from the centralized utility model, and more in the direction of distributed generation in the form of rooftop solar, mid-sized wind, run-of-river hydro, biomass, and, to the degree to which it’s feasible, geothermal.