Here's the problem with Net Metering: suppose you have two neighbors with exactly the same sunlight conditions: 1. A person whose house is large, inefficient,

Here's the problem with Net Metering: suppose you have two neighbors with exactly the same sunlight conditions: 1. A person whose house is large, inefficient, and uses a lot of electricity 2. A person with a small efficient house. If both of these people buy the exact same solar panels and generate the exact same amount of electricity, then the utility has to pay #1 a lot more money than #2. (If you really want to ramp up the rhetoric, call #1 rich and #2 poor, and ask why the rich guy gets paid more for his solar power) How does this happen? In order to encourage conservation, we have different price tiers. The more electricity you use the higher the price per usage is. When the solar "rolls the meter backwards", it's rolling away the high-cost tier from the wasteful guy, and the low-cost tier from the conservationist. We want to encourage solar generation, so it makes sense that solar generators should be paid more per kWh. Net Metering is the Wrong Way to accomplish this goal.