I am however, Certain the market inertia for AC will rule the day for the next 100 years.
"Eighty-five percent of the horse-drawn vehicle industry of
the country is untouched by the automobile. In proof of the foregoing permit me
to say that in 1906-7, and coincident with an enormous demand for automobiles,
the demand for buggies reached the highest tide of its history. The man who
predicts the downfall of the automobile is a fool; the man who denies its great
necessity and general adoption for many uses is a bigger fool; and the man who
predicts the general annihilation of the horse and his vehicle is the greatest
fool of all."
- The keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the National Association of Carriage Builders in 1908, the year that Ford introduced the Model T
I think it is unlikely there will be electric power companies 100 years from now. As long as I am making predictions, I also predict there will be no human-driven automobiles on public roads, no outdoor farms, and nearly all manual labor will be done by robots, including surgery.