Solar 'puts power in the hands of the little guy'

Solar power will soon have "grid parity" with coal and other dirty forms of power production. Germany is at the forefront. Meanwhile, solar panels on every house and in every backyard are making energy production local and distributive, instead of remote and concentrated:

By decentralizing power generation, the renewables boom could do to the power industry what the Internet did to the media: Put power in the hands of the little guy, and force power companies to rethink how they do business.

Can You Have Too Much Solar Energy?

By Andrew Curry

March 29, 2013 | Slate

URL: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/alternative_energy/2013/03/solar_power_in_germany_how_a_cloudy_country_became_the_world_leader_in_solar.single.html