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Both can be true!

IOUs like Dominion and especially the ones in California are corrupt. They do want to discourage rooftop solar and NEM 3.0 is a battle between the solar industry and IOUs.

But the economics still stand, and your local power co-op is still going to have to end net metering at some point, too. Its a matter of when, and you could absolutely argue it’s too early.

My ideal model is what the city of Cambridge, MA did:

They built their own solar farm, started their own retail electricity provider (only found in MA and TX), and automatically opted everyone into cheaper, cleaner power by default.

We need the flexibility of REPs to de-emphasize the role of IOUs in building generation. Because then they don’t compete as directly with distributed generation.