Thomas Edison and the microgrids

“ Thomas Edison was a man of great foresight, but who would have
thought he could have been more than 100 years ahead of his time?
When he set up his first heat-and-electricity plant near Wall Street in
1882, he imagined a world of micropower. Edison thought the best
way to meet customers´ needs would be with networks of nimble,
decentralised power plants in or near homes and offices. What goes
around, comes around. After a century that seemed to prove Edison
wrong – with power stations getting ever bigger, and the
transmission grids needed to distribute their product ranging ever
wider – local generation for local consumption is back in fashion. “

in THE ECONOMIST, 5 de Agosto de 2000