And many of these subsidies are actually protective of existing energy industry that wants to enforce connectivity to the grid. California in particular had a

And many of these subsidies are actually protective of existing energy industry that wants to enforce connectivity to the grid. California in particular had a relatively quick plummet in power demand that actually caused older parts of the grid to start breaking. PG&E despite having used negligence to set a bombs with gas line negligence and kill dozens of dogs with electrified ground plates argued they couldn't cut into profitability, and started forcing people to reconnect to the grid even if the customer would exceed the maximum buyback cap PG&E offers (as I understand it, not a homeowner so this specific part is only my reading). Result is protectionist nonsense that greatly reduces the profit margin of solar for individual installs.