Here in the U.S., that ain't going to happen for a little while yet. Meantime, as Crazy Horse points out, it's happening in many places on various scales. He leaves out the massive wind farms in Wyoming and the medium-sized farms going up in Oregon. He probably doesn't know about the smaller farms planned for several locations along the Columbia River.

It's true that the NIMBY factor, plus financing and permitting, all present delays. But, interestingly, they also create publicity via the standard reportorial affinity for adversarial situations. The public debate is feeding the interest, not suppressing it.

You may not know either that we have 'feed-in' tariffs here in Washington state. That, and the referendum initiative that we approved in 2006 is creating a demand that has already outstripped supply.

As to nuclear - government monopoly only, as Jerome suggests.

paul spencer