The expensive generators that run in many cities in the developing world could be shut down as the monopolistic grid gets end run via physical delivery of electricity. EEStor has stated that it intends to manufacture an ultra capacitor with amazing energy storage, cost and weight attributes. Some interesting things happen with energy density at the EEstor claimed levels. Innovation and its commercialization must move to the center of energy system reform. In the Southwest, the institutes might focus on advancing solar technologies.

Power when you need it is worth a premium. The biggest impact may be among the rural and urban poor who come onto micro or local grids without waiting for nationalized power generation to reach them. All those people have to live somewhere, after all. LEED certification has emerged as the green standard of approval for new buildings in the United States. Entrepreneurs north of Lagos could harvest solar energy at $0.10/KWhr and truck it wherever demand was in Nigeria for example.  .

For those off the grid a solar panel with a built in ultracapacitor, makes energy available without the grid. But in the world of free energy, cold fusion is where things are just warming up. In short, we must make clean energy cheap. The expensive generators that run in many cities in the developing world could be shut down as the monopolistic grid gets end run via physical delivery of electricity. Solar arrays can provide energy to pump water to watering troughs for cows, improving water quality on remote pastures and saving money too.

The institutes would be geared toward rapid technology transfer designed to maximize the economic and social impact of new renewable technologies. Energy density is important but ignored. Power when you need it is worth a premium. Cheap energy will be nothing short of revolutionary for economic and human development. A competitive awards process would seek to target the best proposals from wherever they originate.