[anovikov]

Of course, net metering is a GIANT implicit subsidy for solar.

Even simply allowing to use the grid to co-consume electricity from it while ALSO using rooftop solar for self-consumption, without ability to feed solar power back into the grid, is a small-time subsidy now, and will be a huge subsidy a few years down the road. Because it means rejecting all the cheap energy which utility can produce with solar (which will become nearly free very soon, and is already quite cheap), and consume only the most expensive electricity the utility produces.

Net metering was always meant to be a temporary perk, it will cease to exist soon. Then crackdowns on rooftop solar will follow (people will be allowed to either have an off-grid solar+batteries setups, or use the grid, but not both at same time).