We should not let others pretend that there are no energy alternatives because they can't think of any or won't work to make them available -- this is America, where the electric revolution began on Pearl St. in Manhattan over 100 years ago.

The annual worldwide market for distributed generation (DG) below 10 MW, is estimated at 17 to 35 GW and studies indicate that small-scale power world-wide account for a large portion of the 200 GW of capacity that was to be added by 2003. Cogeneration accounts for 10% of Europe's power, and that could triple over the next decade if discriminatory regulations are removed -- this mirrors what is also happening in the US with state regulatory reform.

The US has room to grow, with only 8% of power obtained from combined heat and power systems. Denmark obtains 40% of its energy from DG. Most of society's power can come from small-scale local systems, with the rest coming from renewable energy like wind farms and solar plants. We could choose the path of making large centralized thermal plants and traditional energy supply networks obsolete.

We have been advocating a new model to promote responsible clean power, with a "Public Private Partnership" enabling a translation to a new economy not strangled by offshore petroleum interests and poor corporate governance in the power sector.

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