It's $8/month per-kilowatt and for PG&E customers the Market Transition Credit makes it $6.38/month per-kilowatt (at least initially). So you'd be paying ~$32 t

It's $8/month per-kilowatt and for PG&E customers the Market Transition Credit makes it $6.38/month per-kilowatt (at least initially). So you'd be paying ~$32 to PG&E for a 5kW system, not $50. It's really hard to know if the numbers CPUC settled on are really achieved the right balance, but they are trying to deal with a real problem here. There are a bunch of fixed costs associated with being attached to the grid that are currently baked into electric rates and since solar lets you avoid a bunch of electric charges (especially with the current NEM 2.0 rules) this represents a fairly large subsidy. As solar grows in share, the value of each additional solar installation falls unless its paired with storage to shift that generation to when there's the most net demand. Now I don't actually know if CPUC actually stuck the landing here. The proposed rulemaking is a pretty dense document and it seems non-trivial to model costs from parsing that. > I could buy a pallet of 10 solar panels, a converter/invetor all in one from EG4, and an EG4 5kw lithium iron phosphate battery for around $6000. 3.7 kW of panels (assuming these are 370 watt panels like you mentioned above) and 5 kWh of storage is not going to go very far in an off-grid system unless your electric use is pretty low. The thing about going completely off-grid is that you need a substantially larger system than in a grid-tied scenario both in terms of generation and storage.