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Building the ‘smart grid’ / UCLA Today

Posted by Derek on January 21, 2010
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If everyone in Los Angeles put solar panels on their roofs, plugged electric cars into their garages and used smart power-meters today, something interesting would happen.

The electric grid would collapse.

via Building the ‘smart grid’ / UCLA Today.

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