Tony Seba has an interesting perspective on "Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation", with one of the main takeaways being as options like solar become more viable, their takeoff could be exponential rather than moving up gradually in a straight line.
Also, more immediately interesting is how first world reliance on the grid could be changing.
"Distributed Energy Poised for 'Explosive Growth' on the US Grid"
https://enphase.com/en-us
There is a cool little demo a solar installer from Australia made to show Enphase's upcoming off-grid microinverter in action.
https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/comments/b3sgec/demo_clip_of_...
Also, an interesting talk from Sunnova Solar CEO dealing with future of the grid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2915&v=6Dx0U2y-Y...