Solar panel owners and utilities battle it out in California | Grist

Solar panel owners and utilities battle it out in California | Grist 



Net metering, utilities grafting customers. The three IOU's in California were not supposed to be profit machines... they were supposed to serve the public interest. Their selfish profit0protecting fees are excessive and risk reducing and penalizing solar use. Not in the public interest.



Utilities must modernize as per the article, "...utilities will have to act more like grid managers, connecting power
from a host of sources (much like data flowing into a server from many
places."



“There’s no outcome 10 or 20 years from now that looks anything like
what utilities have been before,” Farrell says. “It’s going to happen
anyway, and you just have to choose whether you’re gonna like it or
not.”