On energy generation and the "type of power" being captured/used: it's always baffled me that humanity's primary means of generating electricity was to take one form of energy, convert it to a) motion to move magnets in a coil of copper OR b) chemical electron imbalance, and THEN produce an electron flow. No matter what the starting source takes form, the middle of the process is kinetic motion or chemically hazardous/unstable/degrades over time. What if the biological process discovered for energy production bypasses a kinetic/chemical middle step, directly producing electrical flow at the sub-molecular level? This may have the effect of allowing a sufficiently-bioengineered human to act as their own power source, IF they also have the needed genetic modification to prevent the power from impacting heart rhythm. So far as being able to identify others who have this bioelectrical capability: it alters the optic nerves to make the generated energy visible to the viewer. Just throwing those into the mix!

You all seem to be analyzing the common tropes of these type plots to whittle out those with superficial motives and the more complex motives that drive an everyday person. Cause, let's be honest, there isn't actually too much difference between an everyday person and those who start catastrophes, like the tyrants that lived in the 20th century and started world wars. Having the propensity to cause havoc and reigning it in is what makes a person competent and aware and allows one to persevere through adversity. Motives are hard to create when you only have a passing knowledge of them, however. It's not enough to just casually expose yourself to movie villains, but actually research them and their motives. For that matter, if you want to know why people might want power, you can research people like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao and even people like Vladimir Lenin. Or, Xi Jinping, who definitely didn't have the best of childhoods. Though the sci-fi mechanisms to achieve their ultimate goals will be different, the intrinsic human motivations haven't changed since Adam and Eve. I liked hearing all the ideas you two had. I think this brainstorming is good. Even if you don't use some of the material, forcing yourself to write down something allows you to kickstart your creative processes. Plus, it's good practice. Practice writing your thoughts down in the literary style you want your book to be in so you can practice writing and sentence structure even in these early stages. When I think of evil organizations wanting to cause havoc by using green energy, I think about what's happening today in the World Economic Forum. I think of these people wanting to go green and seeing the absolute travesty and death they leave in their wake. If you want a really sinister motivation for your villains and use the green energy monopoly, you could use what would happen in real life, which is large swaths of the poor and impoverished would die due to not getting enough food, improper heating in the northern countries, unreliable electricity in hospitals, and less manufactured goods to allow them to rise out of poverty. The twisted motivation could be that the people at the top, pushing for this believe that overpopulation would cause a larger issue and that they want to keep the poor to a minimum due to robotics taking off and replacing many unskilled labor jobs. The irony is that data shows that more people lead to better living conditions and more innovation, rather than less. So, it could be a twofold plan driven my both elitist ideas and an erroneous premise. No, I don't expect to be paid and I am sure you will find your own motives the villains can use.