So that you will use electricity, which they will shut off, to bring you to your knees in total submission to the power of the State.
They plan to shut off gasoline too, and to force you to use an electric car, but that will take a few years! For now, they are training you in compliant submission. Be a good little sheep now!
“So that you will use electricity, which they will shut off, to bring you to your knees in total submission to the power of the State.”
Exactly! The Soviet Union used power as a means of control. Got a little town going anti-commie? Turn off their power and make them beg the commies for their power back.