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Enlarge / Wind turbines near Palm Springs, Calif. (credit: nate2b / Flickr) More and more people are finding themselves with a new neighbor: a commercial electricity-generating system. As electricity grids move from centralized fossil fuel plants to decentralized renewables, the world is switching from fewer, larger plants to more, smaller ones.

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