Smarter Grid Linking Solar Panels May Bypass Utilities

I doubt that electricity is fundamentally a wide-area networking service. At first glance, this statement appears absurd. Like telephony or the Internet, electricity enters our homes through outside wires. Is it not therefore a networking service?

Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/06/smarter-grid-linking-solar-panels-may-bypass-utilities?cmpid=rss

Julia Child Darth Vader Elizabeth Taylor Henri Mancini Lucille Ball Willey Mays Benny Goodman Dan Aykroyd Norman Rockwell Billy Crystal