The effect on consumers, as a positive, will be huge. This is indeed where the next Bill Gates will be. It will also be an area that is wide open for participation.
If you love being green, deregulated energy is the place to be.
I am actually saying something nice about Obama, and no it is not a sign of the apocalypse.
The Obama administration has apparently gotten it right on pushing, or at least not getting in the way of, deregulation of electricity and gas delivery.
I for one, see opportunity here, and am so grateful to the President, that I may just show up at the groundbreaking for the Barack H. Obama Presidential Library in 2013.