Thanks to those pricey long-term contracts, the economics of micropower look better than ever.

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An even better way to get round bottlenecks is to expand distributed generation, or micropower .

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Micropower technologies, ranging from fuel cells to microturbines to small natural-gas plants, are taking off.

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The UK can muster a total of 82, 000 micropower installations, of which 78, 000 are solar hot water heaters.

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There's this wonderful connection where micropower can meet the needs of small businesses.

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Price transparency will also allow micropower plants to buy and sell power on the grid as demand dictates, so improving the grid's reliability.

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To ease the bottlenecks, they should follow the recent move by New York state to facilitate access to the grid for small micropower plants.

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Micropower systems have a niche, but some other scheme must be devised to replace the electric energy we now get from nuclear power and coal.

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Designed for stroke patients and those suffering from brain or spinal cord injuries, these so-called medical micropower networks (MMN) use a set of implanted electrodes and a wearable wireless controller to stimulate the muscles of a paralyzed user.

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