In this day and age we depend upon electricity for nearly everything we do.
Often we never even realize that we are using it until it is taken away.
Society dictates that the average family unit must have electrical service
in their homes. You children can even be removed from the home for failure
to maintain a safe/suitable environment.

Electrical utility supply companies that provide your home with electrical
service are well established and often operate around the clock. Most homes
already have electrical service installed and that service is usually controlled
by your account standing and a meter at the home.

Each community/area of service supplied with service has its mean usage of electricity.
Grouped into two or three categories like Residential, Commercial and probably Electric Company usage.
Of the categories available, this idea is for the Residential Service category which applies to personal living
service that is shown to you as your monthly service bill.

Service costs fluctuate with the seasons. The electric company tracks your usage monthly and determines estimates
based on your usage patterns. Budget billing and deposits are often based upon a residents prior usage
statistics. As a whole, These estimates can be used by the company to determine periods of high demand.
Community/Service Area brownouts are often induced if demand exceeds estimates.

Free Electrical Service
Electricity has become a lifeblood service that is vital to everyone's needs.
It is known by many entities as a requirement for household.
The mean usage of each household often exceeds the household's mean income.
Many factors control a household's usage including waste, aged buildings and inefficient appliances.
It would be calculable by current electrical utility companies to establish the average community
residential usage estimates for a given region. For some, it would be higher than normal but for others,
Those living in older buildings, that average would be much lower.

Establishing an average usage for communities and service regions could help people determine
household costs when choosing to move. For those that are stuck within an area where housing is not
state of the art, a baseline can be established for budgeting reasons.

Using these averages, the electric utility could retrofit meters to existing systems to cut-off/Charge for service when
the average usage limit is reached. Establishing a free buffer usage so all Americans can have electrical service.
People that live in energy efficient homes, mind their electrical usage and control it can actually have electricity
for free. The meter could be fitted with usage display, estimated usage at current use and cut-off estimates.
This would allow the consumer (You & I) to estimate our usage for the month and determine when our usage needs to be curbed.
This would also stop the service interruptions that result from exceedingly high bills.

How It Could Work
Existing Service
The Electric Company retrofits the new meters to the homes.
You are given instructions and estimates of your home's usage
that includes the free buffer and costs of estimated usage based on the prior year.
Each monthly billing period starts on the first of each month at 00:00 (midnight)

Everyone would have electrical service at the beginning of each month and it continues to be free until the household usage
reaches the established usage cut-off.
At that point, Households that are in arrears for the prior billing period are cut-off until the balance is paid. Those households not in arrears continue to
have electrical service as normal but are now being charged for their usage. Bills are sent out after the 1st of the month showing the KWH
that is free and the KWH of usage beyond the buffer. The consumer has until the current month's usage reaches the cut-off to pay the bill.

The cut-off meter is controlled remotely by the utility company thru the accounts payable program.
Money received into the account is immediately recorded and the cut-off re-enabled electronically by the program.
This would allow a kiosk system of payment for making payment after hours and online.
The technology already exists for all of this to be possible.

New Service
Any 'New' service, be it a new home or new household moving into an existing home gets the Free Buffer for the established area.
The first bill reflects the actual usage on the new service and shows the Free Buffer and the Overrun.

Results of this System
Implementing this system will have many results. Most of the results will be positive and traceable but some will be positive changes
in lifestyle, attitudes and responsibility. A few that come to mind are:
*Every household will have electricity at least during the Free Buffer every month if they pay their bills.
*Household electrical service costs will diminish significantly from our current costs.
*People will become aware of waste and make changes to their lifestyles to keep their bills low.
*Appliance manufacturers will develop more energy efficient products to meet new demands.
*Children will learn how to manage their energy footprint.
*There will be less stress in the family unit over money issues
*The system's success will lead to new utility models for Gas and Water.
*The Elderly and Single Households will have more money for other living expenses.
*No bill will get so high it is beyond a reasonable amount.


All of this is actually doable right now. The Utility Companies are making money hand over fist and gain profit constantly.
Utilities are community services that are in place for the benefit of the people. A shift in society thinking will be required
that changes the goal of making money to providing a service. There doesn't need to be an offset for loss or an increase of rates
to make this happen. At most there will be a decrease in profit margin. A community service like common utilities should not be making
profit anyway. No taxes should be levied against the residential service consumers either and the utility company should only pay taxes
on commercial accounts.

Interesting topic ~ Kudos

I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and this has been explored in those genres fairly well.
I could cite any number of examples but, I'll give my personal views instead.

Sad to say, it would need to start with some serious housecleaning.
Basically, wipe civilization and the people off the planet.
Now, before you start calling me a monster, consider if we ever advance far enough to settle a new planet from a colony ship where the original generation has long past and the settlers are embryo raised at the location by programmed health bots that is basically what happens.

You now have a pristine world and a pristine population.

The first thing that would be changed is the concept of ownership.
Without ownership, greed has no roots. It doesn't take hold and there is no power struggles.

A sense of Unity would be instituted. Not just unity of each other but unity with nature.

There would be no marriages or families. The entire community would raise the children and people would mate as they wish.
Since all will respect each other as persons, there would be no forced rapes or abuse. The power struggle will have been eradicated.

As generations live and die the population will grow. Local resources will be used up. The populace could roam as a unit or split and form groups.

This scenario seems alien because we have problems visualizing a world without greed and power struggles. That's why it wouldn't work on this planet with this population.

Only by never experiencing ownership can greed be eradicated.
Only by never experiencing power struggles can manipulation be eradicated.

There is a potential for stagnation in this utopian scenario.
Without greed or power there will be a decrease in the propensity for innovation. Some of the greatest works of art are also greed/power motivated.

However, one influences the other.

Stores have clerks that protect against theft.
With no greed, there is no need to invent locks, no need for security measures and no person would be individually responsible.
Community stores would be open to all. No accounting, no inventory, no pressure put to bear to maintain.
You might say, that wouldn't work, you would run out of things and not have them when you need them.
I don't believe that is true. The unity of the community would prevent it. Without greed, no person would need to hog anything.
A lack of something would trigger a community effort to gather more, for everyone.

With no power base, there would be no need for religions. Everyone would always be free to believe what they want and there would be no struggle to make someone believe as you do.

But...
No matter what methods are in place that work or don't work, it can't happen on this planet, at this time, with these people. We are already conditioned to greed and power. Our entire civilization is set up based on greed and power. It is nearly impossible to imagine a civilization that exists in total harmony.

This is what gets me about people's ideas of aliens. We assign our fundamental greed and power to aliens. We think it is a natural state of being in the Universe because it is all we have ever experienced, all we ever known.
What we tend to forget is that on this very planet right now, there are creatures that exist without the baseline greed and power struggles we experience.
This fact tells me it is not a fundamental fact of life but merely a creation of the human experience. An alien species might have motivations more in common with the natural animals of this planet than with humans.

I'm not saying to return to savages. I'm saying, create a new motivation of unity.
A wolf will demonstrate power and greed as a natural (savage) motivation. We tamed that natural savagery out of the wolf and other animals by domestication. Those animals were not able to tame themselves, Humans have that capacity for self-domestication.
It would be something we do ... On Purpose.

Twice a year the community hosts a fair for residents to participate in community-wide cleanup.
Held at an abandoned or little-used parking lot. Residents may bring their trash, yard wastes and
unwanteds for free removal.
Local roadsides and abandoned lots are cleaned.
Eyesores are removed, abandoned derbis is collected and the streets are washed.
Fields are trimmed and woods are thinned (Fire prevention)
A community meeting is held at the close of the fair to discuss community appearance matters that
need attention. Like Painting of bridges, removal of old abandoned buildings and issues relating to
the community appearance karma.
The local police and fire department assist in the activities. Funding drives are held.
Local churches and social groups sponsor activities and booths to promote knowledge and community pride.
The local waste removal company offers hauling services at a reduced price and provide dumpsters, trash cans
and big roll off containers free of charge.
Local businesses contribute to the funding and receieves a tax break on the money contributed.

A flea Market type area is set up at no cost for people to sell their unwanteds. No charge for booths or spots.
Only used items allowed - no professional seller booths permitted.

The biannual dates will need to be flexible for weather purposes. Flyers and announcements will need to be in the community in advance
and it will have to be well organized.
The fire department could host a community bonfire that evening with local bands playing.

There could be rides and games for the kids. Job fairs for community businesses seeking employees.
Reality companies might use this opportunity to sponsor open house for properties for sale or rent.

There could be a trash weigh-in where cleaning teams compete for cash prizes or trophies.
There could be car wash races, Before and after photo galleries, Best of announcements and other competitions
all resulting in community pride, cleanliness and social interest.

Local schools could teach the importance of community and give children the opportunity to express their concerns
and ideas for their communities.

People are locked into a slow spiral of doom that dictates our daily lives so much that we have lost focus of
the things that make us happy.
There are few things in our worlds that don't cost money. It seems that everything has a cost anymore.
We have lost our ability to have values that don't have a dollar sign attached.

Granted, There are gadgets and products that cost money to make but those costs are not what we pay.
We pay for profit. We charge for profit. Our very lives revolve around making money or spending money.
We gather up things to have and to hold then put them aside and they gather dust while we buy new things
to take their place. We consume mass quantities of products that are not necessary to our well-being.
Things that are good for us sometimes even cost us more money.

Many people work because they need money. There are fewer and fewer people working because they love what they do.
Nobody works because it is the right thing to do. A 'good' job is one that is financially rewarded not one that is vital to us.
It is sad that the only time people can come together and work as a society is when a disaster strikes.

Money thinking and profit drive must be eliminated for us to mature as a people. Society in its present form is doomed to collapse
under its wealth driven premise. The change must come from us as individuals. We must move from profit driven motives to
society driven motives. Value systems need to be rethought and reworked that reward people for doing the right thing.

Yes yes basic services.. would be provided of course.. but think of a society where the houses are smart. The lights shut off on and on whenever someone's in the room..
Light pollution is kept to a minimum allowing citizens to see the universe from their backyard... this way it helps to keep people in touch with what's really important and remind them how small they really are... we all know what it feels like to go out camping and when you look up into the night sky and see the whole universe how good that makes you feel..
Imagine being able to see that from your backyard while living in the city

.. all waste management needs are taken care of large or small of course free of charge.. there is no longer a need to pay for anything..... all societies issues could be addressed and solved.. no more monetary value put on anything.... but again no waste is tolerated... ever...

Will there be fairies and magic in this new utopia ..

And skin tight Lycra like Logan wore ..


Will we need to wear shiny metal colanders to protect our brains from all the positive energy


Will it be like heaven on earth


Might be easier to take a colony of "perfect " genetically modified people to another planet .. and start again can I rule