This image is handed to us EnerNOC, an exchenge listed company that sells "technology-enabled energy management solutions help meet the needs ofutilities/grid operators that deliver energy", smart grid technology in short.
Its only in the interest of smart grid developers to be debating anything. The general pubic has the most to gain from more renewable energy fast. It is as clear as day what stands in the way of that, any allocation of funds to anything else! The media will be serving the efficiency side, as this ensures prolonged dependence on the current energy sources, and less development of the renewables industry. Whoever starts a discuession on this topic should be ignored. If you can’t generate then try to save. There will be no death match except that between the status quo and the renewable future, and the status quo will be defeated.