Renewableenergystocks.com - The Blackout of 2003 - Part 2 Article by J. Peter Lynch

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October 3, 2003

Renewableenergystocks.com - The Blackout of 2003 - Part 2
Article by J. Peter Lynch

Point Roberts, WA - ECON Corporate Services (ECON) http://www.Investorideas.com and http://www.renewableenergystocks.com are pleased to feature the follow up article to Septembers issue The Blackout of 2003 - Part One article by Solar Energy Expert, J. Peter Lynch on the East Coast power blackout.
Interested investors can read the perspective on the August 14th event that has created a new interest in the energy and renewable energy sector.

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The Blackout of 2003 -- Part 2
J. Peter Lynch - Featured Guest Writer http://www.renewableenergystocks.com

"The U.S and the world are currently on the verge of a major paradigm shift in the power generation industry".
On August 14th 2003, 50 million Americans were cast into the dark, as a result of the largest blackout in American history. In part one of this article, I discussed what happened and why it happened.
If one wants to look at it in a overly simplistic way you could just say that it was an overloaded electrical grid and that all we have to do to "solve " the problem is:

1. Run more power lines in key areas of the country;
2. Update some key equipment with new technologies;
3. Build more large power plants and make sure everyone has enough power.

Many people are saying that once this is done, everything will be "back to normal". This is partially true, we do need to utilize advanced technology that is currently available and we do need to build more power plants, but these solutions combined with the current centralized power generation approach has a major design flaw.
We are building the "wrong" kind of power grid. We are simply adding on to an already antiquated system and assuming that since this is the way we have always done it in the past, that it will be OK for the future and it will once again be business as usual.
We are assuming that the world now and in the future is the same as it was in the past. Frankly, this is simply not the case. When the electrical grid was developed over 50 years ago, we were a highly centralized economy with very inefficient power generation machinery and very limited technical capabilities. The best way, at the time, was to take advantage of economies of scale and make power plants big and centralized, "bigger was better". However, today that is not the case. Smaller is better, more efficient, more secure, more reliable and much cheaper. In fact, the U.S and the world are currently on the verge of a major paradigm shift in the power generation industry.

What is this "paradigm shift"? What will it entail? And how will it unfold?
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Mr. J. Peter Lynch, Solar Energy/Renewable Energy Guest Columnist

Mr. Lynch has over 25 years experience working as an investment banker with start up and development stage companies in the technology, computer and medical fields. In addition, he has worked for 25 years as an independent securities analyst in small emerging technology companies with a primary focus on alternative energy and has served as a contributing editor for the past 15 years to the Photovoltaic Insider Report, a leading alternative energy publication primarily directed at industry.

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