What I'm thinking today is that the energy situation is maybe a little more complicated than we think. While it's true that alternative energy facilities are resisted by those with an interest in making money from the existing system, energy diversity is not just a challenge to the revenue stream of the energy industry, it's a challenge to energy as a mechanism of population control.
I'm using that phrase on purpose because its mis-application to reproductive issues has blinded us to the fact that the major struggle of the 21st Century is how the world's people are going to be controlled to serve the desires and needs of their self-appointed rulers.
The reason the autonomy of the internet is being challenged and government regulation is rearing its ugly head is because the control of public information is slipping out of the hands of rulers. So, energy deregulation or regulation is really an effort to recapture the information transmission infra-structure. Energy deregulation is actually an effort to wrest control of the energy production and distribution system away from local (often politically or stock-holder controlled entities) and hand them over to corporations which, because they operate on a national and international scale, are easier to control via government regulations.
If de-regulation were a sincere effort to diversify the energy industry, then there would be all sorts of incentives to make that feasible on the household level.
Since that isn't happening, I think it's fair to conclude that the goal of de-regulation is actually the concentration of energy production and distribution--"the better to eat you with, my dear."