Navigant Research’s blog disclosed recently that distributed generation poses an “existential” threat to electric utilities.
Wow. Big word!
But what really made the piece reading was the final paragraph, which goes like this:
Pushing back on net metering, investing in renewable capacity, and building new fossil-fuel plants are likely to buy the utilities some time. And they may just figure out how to thrive in the new era of distributed generation.
But the threats they face are not going away – and they’re not just economic. The FBI said last week it is investigating an act of industrial sabotage in Arkansas, in which an unknown monkeywrencher climbed a 100-foot transmission tower, cut a supporting cable, and brought down a 500-kilovolt power line.
That’s at least the second instance of destruction of utility transmission infrastructure this year.
When suburbanites putting solar panels on their roofs are joined by nighttime saboteurs, it might be time to rethink your business model.
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