Australia was an early mass adopter of suburban rooftop solar and a similar issue played out here.<p>It turns out that the cost of building and maintaining the grid is the majority of the cost of electricity to the home. As the cost of actual kWh trends to zero, the cost of the grid becomes the dominant cost.<p>If households with solar want to use the grid effectively as a battery, that has a defined and quite high cost, and has to be paid no matter how you structure it (monthly fee, tax, etc)
This is Tesla trying to get the tax payers to fund the rich: <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mohit-chhabra/debunking-myths-surrounding-californias-net-metering-reform" rel="nofollow">https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mohit-chhabra/debunking-myths-s...</a><p>The fact is that this tax will help solar and help poorer families make money from it. Instead of subsidies going to the rich.
As a European, I have to ask the obvious question: What?<p>People are being charged for having solar panels? I understand there needs to be a fee for hooking up to the grid etc., but I think here you get that and more back by feeding excess energy to it.<p>Could residence of those states get off the grid and instead install many large batteries?<p>I don't know a lot about this stuff :)