Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground.
That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves.
Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute - the (typically stodgy and backward-looking) trade group of U.S. investor-owned utilities - released a report [PDF] that, as far as I can tell, went almost...