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And micro-grids are getting a good luck, as they could supply the necessary power to the local gas station, supermarket, emergency shelter, police and fire station until the larger systems are restored.
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C. startup trying to build microgrids in the U.S. A city with robust microgrids could break this 15 percent barrier by giving neighborhoods and utilities the flexibility to supply, store, and use local power in several ways.
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Most utilities maintain that they will be unable to deal with local, renewable energy that provides more than 15 percent of the power supply because any more would destabilize the grid, according to Shalom Flank, the chief technology officer of Pareto Energy, a Washington, D.
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Now the local government, irritated with Tepco over post-2011 supply hiccups, wants to put the power out to competitive bid.
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In Albacete, to the north, the power company cut the supply to municipal-owned buildings last week, fed up that the local government was simply ignoring its million-euro debt.
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