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Dear Editor:
I have to take issue with the thought processes in the articles on DG and OPG in the August issue ("Valuable Lessons from Last Year's Blackout" and "Making Wise Energy Investments." Both DG and OPG will only serve a small portion of the population unless adopted widely and implemented nationally. Existing central generators and distributors will fiercely protect the centralized system, meaning that implementing DG will be a very slow and painful process.
The heavy investment already made in existing distribution and generation, not to mention the efficiency (economically and otherwise) of the system will make it difficult to change. That said, I turn to the narrow adoption of DG. For critical applications (telecom, water distribution, hospitals, emergency operations), it certainly makes sense to have DG or OPG. OPG and DG will keep these systems operating during times of crisis. However, the article on last year's ...