In around 1979 my father together with a small number of electrical power engineers and activists sued the California Public Utility Commission to try to force them to allow solar and combined-heat-and-power cogeneration. He was naive about how much entrenched power there was. The CPUC was captured by Pacific Gas and Electric, and argued successfully that it was incredibly unsafe and impossible to allow people to generate electricity in their homes. 50 years later there's so much solar cogen