Ah ok I will try to seek out more recent data Dave, every year the effect is more signoficant. The last ten years would be most important. I think it's an oversight that nobody takes the trouble to measure domestic and community power put to use, they probably would never have guessed it would end up totally capsizing the capitalist bandwagon, though Nikola Tesla and consequentially JP Morgan knew it.
Nobody in either utilities business or finance that I've talked to seems to be able to get their heads around it, it's a completely alien concept to them that free energy has to mean free money, because money is energy, it always was, just nobody seems to have thought about it like this. But look, money is exchangeable for KWhrs in markets, can't get around that :)
Thanks again for the stimulating read and conversation. My own opinion of nuclear is grim, to me it is an abomination, it should never have been something we would use to convert materials to energy. I think it is even worse for planetary heating than fossil fuels, given far greater energy is wasted to heat in the refinement processes of nuclear fuels than fossil fuels, and actually the seven years it takes to build a nuclear station is very serious energy cost as well, and the final cherry on the cake is that none of all the nuclear installations built to date have ever been decommissioned safely, every one of them is a potential accident waiting to happen. Only the bare minimum is spent on decommissioning, because by then the profit has all been made, nobody wants to spend money making them safe, as things stand. But with free money, more or less infinitely scaleable, well we could be fixing that as well as many other unfinished jobs, like covid, new penicillin strains, concorde, the space shuttle, you know, things that should have remained high on the agenda of technological and civilisational achievement, they could all be back on the cards again :)