Imagine...

Imagine most the people, living in future, having own energy, generating electricity too.
It may seem like pipe dreams, but wasn't it like that before? It was the firewood, and the cow dung.
Everyone collected their own. Everyone used their own. Others running low on logs, may buy your own.
Surely we can't live by cow dung, and firewood alone. But the concept can be used with other energy forms. Then everyone is back having own energy, and generating electricity too, distributed generation way. Renewable like solar, can operate that way.
Currently electricity generated centrally. Economy of scale dictates so. Technology isn't there to make plants smaller. Centralized generation is the way to go.
Imagine solar using that concept. Localized climate change may well arise. There's no sunlight, reaching the ground. And no rain too, wetting the ground. Development not possible, on the space above. For acres and acres it's just panels. Certainly, this source should not operate in centralized way.
We have to change our mindset too. Not all plants should be centralized. Some ought to be distributed or decentralized. Think of the moon and the stars. For nuclear, the choice is obvious.