Although I am left somewhat at a loss for power-supplies past Jupiter, here's one planet which won't have any problem generating power: Neptune. Besides the storms, which Event Horizon immortalised: satellites here also get free energy from its retrograde moon. That would be the Kuiper's greatest export to the Great Eight: Triton.
Triton is a low-gravity, mostly cloudless, low-atmo moon. Because it runs retrograde, its underground is getting squeezed. The heat is pumping volatiles up to its surface where they spew geysers. And where they don't, colonists will suffer little effort in drilling a few KM to get at the reservoirs.
The energy can be pumped to its L2 tower and, thence, beamed to outer space-stations. Which will just be the usual bundled piles of rubble fitting arbitary millions of us.
Hard to believe I hadn't thought of this already.
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