What will the growing use of household solar panels mean for the centralised electricity grid? Will it mean we won’t need the grid at all? As Professor Peter Newman explains, the city of Perth is providing us with an interesting case study of distributed electricity generation.

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>more> young family house with 3kW PV and 8kWh battery exports 75% of power to grid and consumes just 3kWh/day