Hey, I'm not complaining.
It remains to be seen exactly what's going to be worked out, and I'm always leery of "private" companies powered solely by government money, but I think (at least in some areas) NASA works better as a customer than as a developer. This could be some steps in the right direction.
Still, space will never really take off until somebody discovers a way to make a boatload of money off it. Power satellites? Down the road, would such systems be all that much more expensive and hard to build than gigantic deep-sea oil rigs?