[Undecided 2012]

this article is bs. Fact is the turbines in North Texas and Oklahoma could easily have (especially the low cost of commodities today) thick copper wires run to major cities therefore reducing the voltage drop. Wind and household solar could work but there must always be a backup electrical service to back them up.

There must be a national program where household solar power producers pay the utility for the convenience of getting power back at night.

Net metering should compensate homeowners the same as it cost the utility to produce themselves.

It’s the same as an electric vehicle uses the highway for free without paying federal gasoline taxes which keep up the highways.

[Smokin' Joe]

Solar doesn't work well here. (48 degrees N Latitude). Incident angle to solar arrays is too low for much of the year, wind loading is a serious problem, and the days are considerably shorter in winter, when the energy is needed most.

Wind turbines have problems between cold in winter, and wind speed.

When you need either most, they aren't available.