Penalty? It's much more like no more free money from folks who can't afford solar subsidizing rich folks who can. Net-metering is a regressive tax. Rich folk

Penalty? It's much more like no more free money from folks who can't afford solar subsidizing rich folks who can. Net-metering is a regressive tax. Rich folks with rooftop solar already get a huge massive benefit in the free battery the grid supplies them overnight - reducing their install costs by 5 figures - and they continue to demand horrible policy like net metering. It's been decades now, it's time to end the practice. Folks with solar were not "screwed" - they simply stopped having non-solar customers subsidize their power usage as much as they were before. Personally I plan on putting up my own solar/battery install so I can live off grid as needed during power outages. I would find it immoral to then demand the power company pay me retail rates for any excess power I generate. I find it problematic for me to even be connected to the grid for my "emergency use" as it's clearly a highly subsidized backup power source for me at that point. Edit: I'm okay with an ends-justify-the-means approach to net metering. However, it absolutely cannot be a long term policy as it's exceedingly regressive in nature. Using it as a short-term subsidy to bootstrap an industry is fine. That goal has been accomplished, and it's time to end these transfer payments.