To a certain extent, I think this development is inevitable. There's no denying that we need ever-increasing amounts of power - and that we've reached the practical limits of wire size and voltage.
It's also yet another suggestion that the days of the single, massive generation plant are gone forever.This isn't some feel-good greenie wish for "co-generation;" it's reality. For a variety of reasons, we better get used to the idea of receiving power from a variety of sources, of varying scale.
What's that mean for you and I? It means we need to really understand bonding, LOTO, and over-current protection principles. It means that the top part of our panels will soon be as cluttered as the area near the breaker terminals.
On the "political" level, it means we can no longer expect generation / distribution equipment to be located far away and out of sight.
Finally, it means that more of us will have to learn to work on systems well beyond 600 volts. "Power quality" and "corona" are terms that will no longer be trivia questions in apprentice courses.
