Global Trend- New energy generating facilities starting to favor micropower Micropower includes distributed renewables (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, wave, small hydro- <10 MW, etc.) and cogeneration- combined heat and electricity  1/6 world's total electricity (2006)- more than provided by nuclear power  1/3 of world's new electricity (2006)  Micropower supplies 1/6 to over 1/2 electricity in many industrialized countries; 53% in Denmark  According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, micropower surpassed nuclear power in electrical generating capacity in 2002 http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/does-a-big-economy-need-big-power-plants-a-guest-post/ http://a4nr.org/news-and-events/10.22.2006-torontostar http://green.yahoo.com/blog/amorylovins/6/profitably-getting-off-coal-micropower.html
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