{"id":7835,"date":"2016-10-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/articles\/ucg-content\/2016\/10\/17\/why-going-local-makes-sense-for-the-clean-energy-transition.html"},"modified":"2016-10-19T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:00:00","slug":"why-going-local-makes-sense-for-the-clean-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/why-going-local-makes-sense-for-the-clean-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Going Local Makes Sense for the Clean Energy Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his commentary, Steve Cicala fell into a common trap for economists analyzing the electricity system. Touting what economics calls competitive advantage, Mr Cicala suggests we pursue the lowest price by taking cheap solar electricity from the Southwest, wind from the Midwest, and even coal from Appalachia, and send it across the country to places where those same electrons can\u2019t be as inexpensively generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his commentary, Steve Cicala fell into a common trap for economists analyzing the electricity system. Touting what economics calls competitive advantage, Mr Cicala suggests we pursue the lowest price by taking cheap solar electricity from the Southwest, wind from the Midwest, and even coal from Appalachia, and send it across the country to places where those same electrons can&rsquo;t be as inexpensively generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[575,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7836,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}