The utilities quickly found themselves with a plethora of new problems. Never before had they had to deal with variable generation, never before had they had to deal with distributed generation, and never in the seventy years of their existence had they lost control over the production side of their business. At issue wasn’t that they suddenly had to integrate a massive amount of new power but that they weren’t getting to decide how much, where, or when relatively small amounts of electricity would come streaming onto their power lines. They just had to pay for it and distribute it when it got
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