Our experience in SE Michigan indicates that the small operations--municipally owned--are more reliable in crises--e.g: blackouts, strorm damage, etc--than the oligopolies. So we not only need internet interoperability we need to make municipal and small cooperative producers and distributors more viable and economically feasible to establish and operate.

I think we need also to make on site generation more feasible and viable with net metering and the grid as an emergency backup.

Also I am relatively ignorant of computer hardware and software. and much ofthe terminology you use in your articles is over my head. So are many of the acronyms you use. I do appreciate the information. I wopuld appreciate it more if it were in laymans' terms.

Al Connor