Small is Beautiful: Supporting Greater Wind Energy Usage

I made a comment on "Energy Storage - Supporting Greater Wind Energy Usage," by Richard Baxter on EnergyPulse, that reads

Small is beautiful. It is now clear that distributed resources cannot be compared with central stations, because of generation, transmission, and distribution capital investment requirements and corresponding losses, and differences in reliability. Germans are using the statistical firm capacity that is available from widely distributed wind projects, which make better use of system capacity. Large wind farms need to be looked at very carefully, because the local efficiency of strong wind farm may block many not so efficient, but effective, widespread wind projects close to the loads, which may eventually result in less total costs.