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There are too many interested parties involved in the energy sector. The only common sense I can think of is solar+storage at the single building level and interconnected through smart grids with neighbours. But that leaves out the government and all those interested parties so we're never ever getting that.
And in the winter in the North people are just supposed to freeze?
Solar would produce enough power in winter. Germany is europe's top solar energy producer and is at a latitude similar to Alaska.