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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Evaluating</span> == # Given that Microgrids allow wealthy neighborhoods and corporations to "opt-out" of the main grid, does this create a dystopian "Energy Apartheid" where the poor are left to pay the massive maintenance costs of a decaying, unreliable macro-grid? # If a neighborhood microgrid generates massive excess solar power, should the utility company be legally forced to buy that power at the exact same retail rate they sell it for (Net Metering), or is that an unfair subsidy to the wealthy? # Because Microgrids rely entirely on complex, centralized AI controllers to perfectly balance the voltage in milliseconds, are they actually vastly more vulnerable to catastrophic hacking and ransomware than the old, dumb, analog macro-grid? </div> <div style="background-color: #2F4F4F; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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