In the US we actually do have municipal electric companies. But the vast majority are private for profit companies.

It’s something I love but it also terrifies me. The electric grid is huge, critical, incredibly complex, and has lots of room for catastrophic failure.

Exciting/inspiring story, thanks for sharing!

I can imagine it pretty well, seeing as in my neck of the woods a local village or neighborhood owned conventional power plant or desalination plant arn’t common, but they arn’t unheard of either as an alternative to everyone having their own individual generator and water maker. You just generally find them on small islands or very remote towns and villages.

Wind and solar have proven useful in augmenting these generators, and given how expensive diesel is they were some of the first to use it, but yes, people have been doing this for quite some time with conventional power generation.