And that's the way it ought to be.
Out here in the flat land where city folks make fun of us, most rivers of any size had numerous low-head dams with hydroelectric generating stations situated on one end. Some were on repurposed grain milling sites. The things were surprisingly efficient for their time, but most of them got gobbled up by corporations who relied on regional coal-fired power plants and were summarily closed and abandoned.
Constant "consolidation," constant "acquisition," constant effort to end up with one behemoth controlling any given good or service. Babel-ization never ends well.
It’s all about Federalizing the grid.
Controlling the distribution end.
Controlling the users.
Communism