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Microgrids: Moving Away From Central Power
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BY ADAM TUCK, National Research Council of Canada
Canada is in the enviable position of being relatively rich in natural resources and having one of the cleanest, least expensive, and most reliable electricity grids in the world. However, a decrease in infrastructure investments in the 1990s along with an increase in the integration of variable generation such as renewables, and an overall growth in demand...
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