here in CA, the CPUC is trying their best to prevent people from adding Solar to their roofs. They've even got rid of Net metering almost entirely with their new NEM 3 rules.
Net Metering was a subsidy to encourage solar growth at a time when it wasn't nearly as prevalent as it is now. It's not the "natural" way of metering solar-equipped homes. (Assuming there is any "natural" way at all).
Now that solar is cheap enough to support itself without subsidy, the math is changing at the grid connection.
Everyone is producing gobs of power in the middle of the day, and just expecting the grid to take anything they can't use onsite. Then in the early evening, it all reverses quickly and the demands on the grid quickly flip.
In my mind, a connection to the grid should pay per kWh for two things: generation and transportation. When I pull power from the grid, I pay for both of those things. I pay to have those watts generated, and I pay to have them sent to me.
When I push power onto the grid, I am paid for the generation. I do not get paid to send it to wherever it goes, that's someone else paying that part.
Now that solar is cheap enough to support itself without subsidy, the math is changing at the grid connection.
Everyone is producing gobs of power in the middle of the day, and just expecting the grid to take anything they can't use onsite. Then in the early evening, it all reverses quickly and the demands on the grid quickly flip.
In my mind, a connection to the grid should pay per kWh for two things: generation and transportation. When I pull power from the grid, I pay for both of those things. I pay to have those watts generated, and I pay to have them sent to me.
When I push power onto the grid, I am paid for the generation. I do not get paid to send it to wherever it goes, that's someone else paying that part.