It is no longer immune to consumer pressure. They will continue to be supplied power through the existing electricity network. Technological changes tend to come in waves. A typical pattern is for one generation to make a discovery, explain the science to the next, after which it can then take decades to become part of daily life. With so many natural resources familiar for centuries, such as windmills, renewable energy is different.
Financial analysts like to compare the market to a herd that has tremendous inertia.
But it can take just one or two members to break away to precipitate a stampede. The whole market turns. The same kind of shift may be happening in the electricity industry. Suddenly humanity is taking advantage of renewable resources that have perhaps suffered from their obviousness. The price of wind power has plummeted.