Large, centralized electric power stations figure in most of them. This kind of thinking rarely figures in the central planners' gloomy visions and no-growth prescriptions, however. But conservation initiatives that assume existing technologies and fuel mixes are going to achieve little, and will actually prove counter-productive if they reduce flexibility and entrench the status quo. Anybody who dared suggest that we should produce more electricity, and sell it cheaper, would be dismissed as a dangerous crank, much like the idiot who thought we could raise revenues by cutting marginal tax rates. But then that's just what we did.
National strategies are all very well.
But if you care to do something personally to cut pollution, plug in the electric heat and stop burning wood, then lift your burger out of the gas-heated frying pan and stick it in the microwave fire. Whatever the greens may try to tell you, you can burn those extra watts with a smile.