The big problem with it is this: "to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and elect

The big problem with it is this: "to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do." This is essentially an open door that can later be slammed shut in the faces of solar installations that are leased at a discount to the homeowner on the fact that excess power can be sold back to the grid (net metering). It could also be taken so far as to allow power companies to charge extra fees to individual solar users for not using "enough" power to pay their "share" of the distribution system costs (utility poles etc). I wish there was a way to vote against this and let them know exactly why. Its a nearly perfect example of a classic political ploy: Enshrine a common sense right that everyone already defacto has (and would be crazy to vote against) in law, but slip in some weasel words that nullify that right in practice.