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Distributed power generators — small, modular electricity generators sited close to customer loads — offer advantages that large-scale, capital-intensive, central-station power plants cannot provide.

6 Half-Truths About the Cloud 2009

Regarding solar power, you need to think more broadly – central-station solar power in the southwest is not necessarily the best or most cost-effective approach.

Matthew Yglesias » An Electrical Grid We Can Believe In 2009

While getting the facts terribly wrong, it opens a door to talk about the advantages of distributed generation rather than large, central-station power generation.

John Farrell: Gas is Greener? Smearing Renewables Over Land Use Exposes Ignorance of Fossil Fuel Lovers John Farrell 2011

While getting the facts terribly wrong, it opens a door to talk about the advantages of distributed generation rather than large, central-station power generation.

John Farrell: Gas is Greener? Smearing Renewables Over Land Use Exposes Ignorance of Fossil Fuel Lovers John Farrell 2011

These wide gaps in Internet use result from a lack of economic resources, a lack of central-station electricity and telecommunications facilities, and government policies that discourage Internet use.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

These wide gaps in Internet use result from a lack of economic resources, a lack of central-station electricity and telecommunications facilities, and government policies that discourage Internet use.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

Of the three, the central-station approach is most similar to the conventional option of seeing up isolated grids fed by diesel-powered generators to serve large villages.

3. PV systems for supplying electric power to rural households 1992

The technical feasibility of central-station village power-supply systems has been clearly demonstrated.

3. PV systems for supplying electric power to rural households 1992

There had been a farm-headquarters off to one side, a huge central-station for all the agricultural work on what once would have been half a county, but there were jagged walls where buildings had been, and smoke still rose from the place.

Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Murray Leinster 1935

The Feeder and Three-wire systems are at this day used in all parts of the world, not only in central-station work, but in the installation and operation of isolated electric-light plants in large buildings.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910