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Yeah that's been an anticipated problem, since home solar is essentially a lost customer for the utility, but infrastructure maintenance costs don't change. Honestly the power grid shouldn't be a commercial enterprise, even if it's under shit tons of regulation. It's so absurdly critical to society we should have nationalized the power companies a long time ago.
Yeah... Right now California residents are paying massively inflated rates because the utility board decided that PG&E, a company that is literally a convicted killer, can pass the cost of the fines on to customers.
Yeah, if it’s a problem that our power grid is having distributed green energy connected all over the place, we need to make the damn utilities change.
Kind of like our railroads? Or the internet?