Every time someone proposes accelerating the transition, the same objection arrives within thirty seconds.
"But the grid."
The grid problem is real at the macro level and massively exaggerated at the level that matters — the home, the street, the community.
A house with solar and a battery generates from the roof, stores on site, uses in the evening. The electrons travel ten metres. They never touch the transmission network. They bypass every layer of cost and extraction entirely.
Scale that across a municipality that treats local energy as infrastructure. Grid demand compresses. Peak load flattens. Reinforcement need shrinks. You are not waiting for the grid to be upgraded. You are reducing how much grid you need.
Meanwhile the AI industry is bolting 747 jet engines to data centres to keep the servers running. If that industry can mobilise gas turbines at that speed and scale, we can mobilise solar panels to power homes.
The municipality is the right unit. Not the nation state. The local council. The community cooperative. The organisation that knows its streets and can send the letter this week.
Every municipality should right now be sending a practical document to every household and business: here is what solar costs and saves. Here is the loan. Here is the local installer. Here is the community battery for renters. Here is the EV programme for the local fleet.
Don't wait for the grid. Build local. The grid gets easier when you do.