Looks like their propaganda is working. Do you realize that everyone already pays to maintain a connection to the grid? It's right there on your electric bill

Looks like their propaganda is working. Do you realize that everyone already pays to maintain a connection to the grid? It's right there on your electric bill whether you have solar or not. Getting solar doesn't exempt you from existing fees and taxes. In fact some utilities don't even allow you to disconnect from the grid. It's also not $57 a month. That's the "average" tax, whatever that means. With the size of my installation, it would be over $110 a month. And my installation is not out of the ordinary. And it's not a "free battery". That's the opposite of what is happening. The utilities pay less than half of what they charge for the excess electricity that you produce. It's an attempt to destroy residential solar. No less. I'd actually not care about their extortion if they allowed us to disconnect from the grid and run without them, but that is illegal, at least in Los Angeles.