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My electricity is produced by a cooperative. The coop has some 60k participants. And over the year it's managed to build and operate a respectable amount of wind turbines and solar installations, and it's now expanding into district heating and battery storage.

They're producing some 100GWh/year. Which is not half bad, considering they're typically at or below market price and often pay a ~6% dividend.

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I think your case is unusual? Co-ops I am familiar with usually don't own generation, they buy power from a regional generator and then provide transmission infrastructure and local services to their (often rural) members.

Maybe with costs for solar dropping more co-ops are looking at adding it at least where it might work to reduce peak demands.

I'm sure it won't work everywhere, but it's been pretty successful. I wish more people would start coops to tackle problems like this. Powering some 50k families is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but this started out as a grassroots thing with just a handful of people. Goes to show that you don't have to be stuck with a shitty power company.

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