Cowicide, your scenario may be the case in the ill-defined future, but for the next decade or three, the grid will be what prevents most of the population from freezing in the dark at the wrong time of year.
Yes, of course, for the most part. We’re probably talking 20 years at minimum best. But, somewhere between 20-40 years is more likely according to the Mark Z. Jacobson Energy Policy that’s in that link above.
The real challenge is it becomes very expensive to provide a grid that is needed only 5% of the time, and yet just taking the total cost of supporting the grid and dividing it by number of customers won’t sit too well, either.
Like a single payer system for energy distribution or something like that?
