> A robust, fault tolerant, dynamic system of community and family power is the actual future and only dramatically decentralized things like that will ultimately be politically viable and sustainable.

Although I'm a big fan of distributed solar, I don't think it's by any means so clear it'll become dominant. Utility scale solar is half the cost on a leveled basis. Given existing institutions, market structure, and the very non trivial problems involved in a P2P grid I think a federated model is much more likely, with some very localized distributed stuff in the mix.