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Economies of Scale are “Bullshit”

| Written by John Farrell | No Comments | Updated on Nov 12, 2010 The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/economies-scale-are-bullshit/

I spoke with a Minnesota-based wind developer in late 2010 and in a wide-ranging conversation about developing distributed wind projects, he remarked:

“Economies of scale are bullshit”

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John Farrell directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and he focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. More

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