In the past decade, the number of small businesses and consumers substantially reducing their reliance on grid-based electricity has risen over 33% annually.

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This reliance, like a faith that our cell phones will work or the electricity will be on, means that failure can be a crisis.

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While reliance on Russian natural gas imports is considerable, Poland actually relies on domestically produced coal for nearly all of its electricity needs.

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