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How about this for size: home owners get tax breaks for installing solar/wind generators. They support themselves, and all the power companies have to do in the end is provide service, maintenance, and r&d.
Yes, we will still be paying the power company, rather than the power company paying those that feed the grid instead of leech the grid. And? No more brown outs, black outs, energy crises.
Why is it that everyone wants to place blame here, there, everywhere but never take responsibility to fix it? Who cares about the fault, just FIX IT. Then move on to a better world that doesn't have to worry about nuclear waste, etc.

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At least with tax credits (e.g. current ones for conservation, solar, etc.), the recipient has to have made a purchase and installation of the product before qualifying for the credit. So there's money flowing through our economy, for goods and services, before there's a cost to the Fed. And the cost is not a direct pay-out by the Fed, but reduced tax revenue, calculated as a percentage of the recipient's purchase/installation costs.

We need to implement an energy mix for the future that works economically in the sense that it provides energy in quantities and forms sufficient to power our economy and to keep the energy supply system going. If it takes subsidies, and on top of that, if it takes measures to keep the competition at bay, the end result will be well worth it. More than worth it, as failure to get us off fossil fuels in time would constitute the end of our modern civilization upon which we have come to depend so heavily.

So far, I don't see much evidence that we are working on solving the long-term energy supply problem at all.

The nuclear power industry has refused to go out build without huge subsidies. Then there is that thing about contamination and how to dispose of it. Nevada doesn't want it.
The alternative to all this is industrial hemp. Ralph Nader addressed it the other day at a news conference. He believes that we should be using it and that it could indeed replace fossil fuels. It's a wonderous plant that can be used for many things, most notably oil.
It doesn't matter which way we go, there will be subsidies. Big oil is the biggest receiver of subsidies, welfare and tax breaks in the world. At least with hemp it would home grown all the way.

Utility companies want federal loan guarantees tied to project financing for nuclear power plants in order to shift all the risk to the taxpayers. They are well able to get the loans on their own. Agreed, the banks won't give them project financing backed by the nuclear plant and its revenues, but these utilities are large enough corporations that they can certainly get the loans using their corporate equity as the collateral and backing the loans with their full cash flow from their existing plants, plus the nuclear plant, plus their power distribution system.