Plus we will need to find a way to pay for the most basic elements of the infrastructure, the wires and poles, that few people care about and yet must stay standing and in good condition for all the rest of the grid to work at all. Investors’ money may flow toward newfangled forms of generation these days, and toward private companies, whether inventing microscopic components or repurposing salt caverns, but basic maintenance is still on the back of the utility. We, the users of electricity, pay those bills, until we don’t.
