In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.

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He quit a year later--ahead of Drexel's collapse triggered by prosecution of its junk-bond operation--to do boutique-finance deals that eventually led him to Houston billionaire Robert McNair's Cogen Technologies (which sold most of its plants to Enron just before that giant's collapse).

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