PS: I also understand and acknowledge that utilities are profit driven entities that strive and scheme and use politics to gain as much profit as they can. That does not make them “evil” (unless they cheat). They will, to a lesser or greater degree, change as technology changes. If FF becomes commercial, they will deploy, faster or slower, as they perceive the “fear vs. greed” equation that ALL business decisions come down to.

The public and the government (including the courts) they elect (as least in the US) will mold the business landscape the utilities will try to navigate through in their attempt to gain the most benefit (greed) or least harm (fear) from the new technology.

So the people will in the end determine the winners and losers. They need to elect politicians that have the general good at heart and do a fair, compasionate job of allocating the benefits and costs of FF deployment. Unfortunately, those politicians are a rare bred. Nuff said.