The “All electric society” has a problem very few other societies have. It has to make provisions for cases when there is too much electricity in the network. What seems like a problem some energy poor countries, regions or people will dream of, has become a costly matter in California beyond Californication. A report in “The New Yorker”2025-7-9 by Bill McKibben highlights the fact that California had to pay neighboring states to take and consume its surplus production of electricity. With a surplus production of 1.5 the total demand of electricity the costs become a sensitive issue. Intelligent distribution and appliances can absorb huge additional quantities, but the network stability has to rely on a suitable infrastructure for this as well. Optimizing de-central production and consumption is the easy theoretical solution. Hence, the all electric society has to deal with affluent power generation in the near future more than with too little electric power. Prepare tp run your AI-systems in a decentralized manner to safe the planet from more nuclear power plants and nuclear waste as a corollary. Electric power has always been an issue of political power. The all electric society will not be different in this respect. A decentralized prosumer society, therefore, is an empowerment of citizens, comparable historically maybe only with the French revolution or the technological progress spurred by the discovery of Ohm’s law.
