The Israeli government is now threatening power cuts in Gaza as collective punishment technique...  a very vivid illustration of the advantages of localised micropower, and of the often-unacknowledged reasons behind disparagement of same by governments and corporate bosses.  Those who own your powerline -- to the degree that your comfort and safety depend on electricity from that power line -- can punish or control you by deliberate interruption of service.

In one of the most solar-rich pieces of real estate in the world, people will be deprived of electricity if/when state agents cut off the centralised power supply to their area.  If PV panels and mobile solar-stirling were ubiquitous in Gaza, this threat would be far less effective...

...Sunfrost makes a refrigerator/freezer that will keep small qties of food (or meds) frozen if connected to a single 75w pv panel...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...