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> The source can be attacked, the transmission infra can be attacked, the delivery point can be censored.

Who cares? One isolated field of solar represents a negligible amount of power at grid scale. Nobody is going to bother to go around attacking each individual field because the "ROI" of attacking a high-voltage transmission line (the kind that brings power from multiple thermal plants to a city) is so much higher.

Attacks scale in the drone age, infrastructure left where nobody’s looking at it is a vulnerability. Solar stacked on an active farm has the benefit of having eyes on it constantly - detection, repair and recovery cycles are dramatically shortened.
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You’re assuming such attacks cannot be automated. Which unfortunately they so often can.

Just take a look at the multiple fridge freezer attacks in the EU this year.

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> One isolated field of solar represents a negligible amount of power at grid scale.

Maybe I was unclear: that's exactly my point! That's the problem with grid scale for most everyday uses.

In 2026, it's fairly trivial to have a setup such that, if "the grid" fails, I don't even notice for days. That's a nice feature! And it makes sense to build out communities that way from now on.

"The grid" is great for industry, but for residential, micro-grids are clearly the future. Allowing the state and the electric company to cut us off - intentionally or otherwise, let alone having no power during a disaster when it's needed most, is a very silly thing to trade for a tiny efficiency increase.

I sleep well at night knowing I have four bigass AGMs under me.