Solar on roofs will save $84 million for the customers of the non-profit, Long Island Power Authority and not by reducing the purchase of fossil fuels to run power plants.
Instead of building power lines to a remote part of Long Island, LIPA will put solar on roofs in the communities to which expensive lines would have run and avoid $84 million in line expense.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130912/why-are-some-big-utilities-embracing-small-scale-solar-power.
LIPA's use of solar to reduce grid costs is just one more way that the solar revolution is changing the energy business.
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