What you are saying is that history is of no use? No matter what you put out in the smaller communities the cost will not be put unto the communities but will be bourn by the government. In population centers there are utility companies that are self servicing in other words they pay their own way through revenues collected but in the smaller communities they are wards of the government. There is no small system in today's world that is worth the cost that it takes to make it run. Take Kodiak as an example, they have water and wind, they can make it work but how many other places have that? Some small systems have solar or wind and a battery but that will only work if you have a Honda or other generator to keep the charge on the batteries and so it is with larger system but no batteries large enough exist. Another thing is look at the villages and see the junk laying around, that will be what happens when the systems get old or damaged and the government quits paying.