Here is the key: whether it costs more or less, one needs to factor in that the people making money off energy now may not be the ones making money off it in the future. It means those making money off it now will fight change.
This reminds me a little of what is happening to the record industry right now. It is imploding, no matter what they try.
Does this mean I'm going to have to listen to the unbearable whining of the energy business equivalent of Metallica moaning about Napster, assailing me with stories of woe and deprivation because power generation is now distributed peer-to-peer, and there are destitute sheiks who are now down to their last dozen solid gold Rolls Royces?