Maybe it makes sense to truly integrate generation and storage with your neighbor. Between two towns separated by forty miles of roads? I don't think you get t

Maybe it makes sense to truly integrate generation and storage with your neighbor. Between two towns separated by forty miles of roads? I don't think you get to the same end result. When production is in the same location as consumption, the interconnects can be way less expensive and in a disaster the grid has more redundancy. Plus it bootstraps way better, locally people get access to the initial benefits before the entire grid has been planned out. And as others suggest, those interconnects might go mostly unused, storage and generation is pretty impressive nowadays. But even besides the timing advantages, you just end up in a situation where the power grid is closer to the internet in architecture where sources and consumers of electricity are all over. We have the technology to handle that.