> What is going to happen once everyone owns solar panels and there is no one left to subsidize base power? Well prices will keep going up and up until they rea

> What is going to happen once everyone owns solar panels and there is no one left to subsidize base power? Well prices will keep going up and up until they reach a singularity and the whole system will collapse. Then prices will have to be recalibrated to fit the actual market price. Which means people will no longer pay for base power by the KWh but instead by fixed costs no matter how much they use.... I know the discussion is specifically US centric but in many markets you already have a fixed cost/fee/tax on electricity as a base cost and on top of this an electricity usage cost. In these cases the Micro-generation offsets a usage cost not the base cost (but in a lot of places micro-generation is still heavily subsidized on the purchase of solar panels). So as with many other things YMMV.