so, time to be self reliant and make our own.If I'm not mistaken that's exactly what Texas does. (some of) Their electricity is "deregulated" which means the generation, the wires (transmission) and even the meter readers are all separate companies.
It wasn't long ago during a multi-state outage they were pounding their chests bragging about having their own grid...How's that working out for you now Texas?
We'll live. By keeping the state power grid separate, we were able to keep the Feds, for the most part, from regulating us. And it's going to work out fine.