Major issues affecting central generation: 1. Increased policies and regulations to reduce carbon emissions 2. Shifting power-generating sources from coal to cheaper natural gas to renewables 3. Aging generation infrastructure 4. Policies supporting an increasingly decentralized and smarter power grid architecture (the Energy Cloud, DER) 5. Reduction in cost of decentralized generation sources 6. Financial impact of the decline in use of central generation
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