Ironically, you could potentially ramp down your power usage via simple appeal to the general population… if they still possessed a unified collective identity. When you tear apart social trust with multiculturalism and mass immigration, you promote atomized self-interest in formerly homogeneous populations. Why would Germans turn off their power in accordance with the state’s polite request when they know that imported minorities will just ignore it? Draconian authoritarian measures are inevitable because there is no other way to compel a preferred behavior within a fractured “multicultural” society.