Tag: Power grid

There’s a good chance flipping on the light switch 10 years from now will feel just as ordinary as it did for your parents and grandparents. But behind the scenes, a radically different system for sending electrons where they’re needed will be turning on those lights. Electrical power that today comes from massive centralized generation stations could originate from your neighbors’ solar panels, then wait a few hours in a mammoth battery in your garage until you get home. That’s because the biggest change to our power grid since it…

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