how about having NO GRID, and supplying every power user with it's own generator? homes, easily done, cars, already done, industries, can be done as well to have localised industry grids only, and then you don't need a storage device, just generating devices that you turn on and off based on local demand. the whole idea of centralization is because it's highly controllable and nobody needs to do anything for it other than pay a non-valuable item(money) for it.,(reply>), Then you'll have to pay for more fuel than you do for your car.  Companies will have to spend even more money for transport and also other options for electricity generation will be impractical or impossible such as nuclear energy, hydroelectric, wind turbines and so on.,(reply>), Hey id love to see it happen, most of us here would! My point was that with my current understanding of technology, its not quite possible right now at the scale needed and at the right price, but will be one day, sooner the better. <br><br>I Wish you every success, and if you are right that the technology is there already but supressed, then it shouldn't be too difficult.,(reply>), if only you guys were aware of our current level of technology and the actual material cost of it...<br>not the bullshit market prices, not the bullshit suppressed 30yars old tech...but hey...you can't see it happen, sure, im gonna MAKE IT HAPPEN. no fucks give to any uninformed people.,(reply>), The point about maintenance is a good one. This would also be the case with renewable + local battery storage (possibly in home or in your car). However it would at least create a new industry providing jobs etc, all depends if the price is right as always.,(reply>), Local generators would lack the high-tech efficiency multipliers that central generating plants have. Most of the UK's power demand is currently satisfied by CCGT - closed cycle gas turbines. In a closed cycle system, as opposed to open cycle, the hot exhaust from the combustion process is used to re-heat the transmission medium and generate even more power. Every last scrap of thermal energy is expended for all it's worth. CCGT equipment isn't really realistic to be manufactured by the thousand and put everywhere, let alone maintained, maintenance being the other major reason for central generation.