Truly astounding that you acknowledge that the power companies are (at this point) just rent-seeking monopolists, and your response is "Gosh, I guess we'll just have to subsidize them with a massive corporate welfare check! No other options are possible!"
We've seen this game play out with telecom before. Spoiler: the monopolists just pocket the money and don't build the infrastructure.
Truly astounding that you acknowledge that the power companies are (at this point) just rent-seeking monopolists, and your response is "Gosh, I guess we'll just have to subsidize them with a massive corporate welfare check! No other options are possible!"
We've seen this game play out with telecom before. Spoiler: the monopolists just pocket the money and don't build the infrastructure.