As an alternative, a battery-powered electric vehicle may use a solar array to recharge; the array may be connected to the general electrical distribution grid.

Poor reliability has been linked to dependence on old and obsolete equipment for power generation, underinvestment in the distribution grid, and lack of incentives for efficient provision of service.

As of 2007 the gas distribution grid in the municipality tops 47 km. 300 households and 32 commercial customers in the town are already using natural gas.

The party added that this would involve 'central government control of the natural monopolies of the transmission and distribution grids'.

The expense of mesh topologies restrict their application to transmission and medium voltage distribution grids.